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 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
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
descendants
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