largus
Latin
Etymology
Often connected with Proto-Indo-European *lai- (“lard, fat, grease”) (see lardum; laetus (“fat, happy”)), though de Vaan finds this problematic.
Also may be connected to lascīvus, from Proto-Indo-European *las- (“to be willing, covetous”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlar.ɡus/, [ˈɫ̪ärɡʊs̠]
- (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
- Synonyms: cōpiōsus, abundāns, cumulātus, ūber, fēcundus
- Antonyms: vacuus, carēns, expers, viduus
- bountiful, liberal
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
- Venetian: łargo
- → Sabir: largo
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: lârjo
- Old French: large
- Middle French: large
- French: large
- Antillean Creole: laj
- Haitian Creole: laj
- Karipúna Creole French: laj
- Louisiana Creole French: laj, larj
- French: large
- Norman: large (Guernsey, Jersey)
- → Middle English: large
- English: large
- Middle French: large
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: largo
- Old Catalan: larch
- Catalan: llarg
- Old Occitan: larc
- Occitan: larg
- Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: llargu, ḷḷargu, llorgu, llergu, yargu,
- Leonese: largu, ḷḷargu
- Mirandese: lhargo
- Old 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
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