largus
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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.[1] 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
- abundant, copious, plentiful, large, abounding in something
- bountiful, liberal, munificent
- (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
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- → Albanian: larg
- → Proto-Brythonic: *llarɣ
- Middle Welsh: llary
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lārgus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 327
- “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