EXPENSIVE Copy link • EXPENSIVEsumtuosus (causing great outlay; a wife, games, parties): pretiosus: magni pretii: multorum nummorum (that has cost much; furniture, estates, a library, wares, etc.): lautus (recherche, of furniture, parties, etc.): carus (dear). Sometimes magnificus: splendidus. My establishment is a very expensive one, magni mihi sumtus domi quotidiani fiunt (Ter., Heaut., 4, 5, 6). Given to lavish expenditure, prodigus: profusus; in anything, prodigus or effusus in aliqua re.