Excessively greedy or eager, especially regarding eating and food.
From Old French 'glutoneus,' from Latin 'gluttonosus,' derived from 'glutto' (glutton). The suffix '-ous' (from Latin '-osus') creates adjectives meaning 'full of' or 'characterized by.'
Gluttony appears in Dante's Inferno as a circle of Hell where gluttons are punished by eternal hunger and rain—medieval Christians were so horrified by excess eating that they imagined eternal torment for it.
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