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Yes. The word lusus is a Scrabble US word. The word lusus is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word lusus is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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5-letter words (2 found)

LUSUS,SULUS,

4-letter words (3 found)

SULU,SUSU,ULUS,

3-letter words (2 found)

SUS,ULU,

2-letter words (1 found)

US,

You can make 8 words from lusus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of lusus

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Definitions and meaning of lusus

lusus

Latin

Etymology

From the perfect passive participle of lūdō (“play (a game, sport)”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈluː.sus/, [ˈɫ̪uːs̠ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.sus/, [ˈluːs̬us]

Participle

lūsus (feminine lūsa, neuter lūsum); first/second-declension participle

  1. played (a game or sport), having been played.
  2. practiced, having been practiced.
  3. mocked, mimicked, having been mocked.
  4. teased, ridiculed, having been teased.
  5. deceived, tricked, having been deceived.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

lūsus m (genitive lūsūs); fourth declension

  1. a playing, play, sport, game
    Synonyms: lūdus, iocus
  2. toying, dalliance
  3. jest, mockery, fun

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Related terms

  • lūdō
  • lūdus

References

  • “lusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “lusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lusus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • lusus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Source: wiktionary.org