largus

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Often connected with Proto-Indo-European *lay- (“lard, fat, grease”) (see lārdum, lāridum (“bacon”) and laetus (“fat, happy”)), via Proto-Italic *lajes-ago-, though de Vaan finds this problematic and doubts that the long vowel is original. Compare however Ancient Greek λᾱρῑνός (lārīnós, “fattened; fatty”).

Also may be connected to lascīvus, from Proto-Indo-European *las- (“to be willing, covetous”), if such a root exists, but the semantics are suspicious.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlar.ɡus/, [ˈɫ̪ärɡʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlar.ɡus/, [ˈlärɡus]

Adjective

largus (feminine larga, neuter largum, comparative largior, superlative largissimus, adverb largē or largiter); first/second-declension adjective

1. abundant, copious, plentiful, large, abounding in something

   Synonyms: cōpiōsus, abundāns, cumulātus, ūber, fēcundus

   Antonyms: vacuus, carēns, expers, viduus

2. bountiful, liberal, munificent
3. (with ablative or genitive) generous with, lavish of

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	largus	larga	largum		largī	largae	larga
Genitive	largī	largae	largī		largōrum	largārum	largōrum
Dative	largō		largō		largīs
Accusative	largum	largam	largum		largōs	largās	larga
Ablative	largō	largā	largō		largīs
Vocative	large	larga	largum		largī	largae	larga

Derived terms

• largē
• largificus
• largifluus
• largiloquus
• largior
• largitās
• largiter
• largitūdō
• largitus
• largiusculus

 

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: largu
  • Megleno-Romanian: larg
  • Romanian: larg
• Dalmatian:
  • luarc, luarg
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: largu
  • Italian: largo
  • Neapolitan: làrio

    Tarantino: lario

  • Sicilian: largu, làricu
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: lèrg
  • Friulian: larc
  • Istriot: largo
  • Ladin: lèrch
  • Ligurian: largo
  • Lombard: larg, lercc
  • Piedmontese: largh
  • Romagnol: lergh
  • Romansch: lartg, larg
  • Venetan: łargo
    • → Sabir: largo
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: lârjo
  • Old French: large
    • Middle French: large
      • French: large
        • → Persian: لارژ (lârž)
    • Norman: large (Guernsey, Jersey)
    • → Middle English: large
      • English: large
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: largo
  • Old Catalan: larch
    • Catalan: llarg
  • Old Occitan: larc
    • Occitan: larg
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: llargu, ḷḷargu,
  • Leonese: llargu, ḷḷargu
  • Mirandese: lhargo
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: largo
    • Fala: largu
    • Galician: largo
    • Portuguese: largo
      • Guinea-Bissau Creole: largu
      • Kabuverdianu: largu
      • Korlai Creole Portuguese: larg
      • Macanese: largo
      • Papiamentu: largu
      • Principense: lagu
  • Old Spanish: largo
    • Extremaduran: largu
    • Ladino: largo
    • Spanish: largo (see there for further descendants)
• → Albanian: larg
• → Proto-Brythonic: *llarɣ
  • Middle Welsh: llary
• → Translingual: Largus

References

• “largus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “largus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• largus 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)
• largus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “largus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 654