amplus

Disputed.

• Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂emlos, from *h₂em- (“to grasp”), and etymologically "graspable". See also ānsa (“handle”).
• Otherwise for ambiplus (“full on both sides”), composed of ambi- (“both”) and an element akin to plēnus (“full”) (and more distantly to plūs (“more”)).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈam.plus/, [ˈämpɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈam.plus/, [ˈämplus]

amplus (feminine ampla, neuter amplum, comparative amplior, superlative amplissimus, adverb amplē); first/second-declension adjective

1. large, spacious, roomy
2. abundant, ample
3. (figuratively, of force) impetuous, violent, strong
4. magnificent, splendid, glorious
5. esteemed, distinguished, well-regarded

First/second-declension adjective.

• “amplus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amplus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amplus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a man who has held many offices: amplis honoribus usus (Sall. Iug. 25. 4)
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

• palmus