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.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	largus	larga	largum	largī	largae	larga
Genitive	largī	largae	largī	largōrum	largārum	largōrum
Dative	largō	largae	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:
- 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
  - 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, 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

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