largus

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (adjective, declension-1, declension-2) abundant, copious, plentiful, large, abounding in something
2. (adjective, declension-1, declension-2) bountiful, liberal, munificent
3. (adjective, declension-1, declension-2, genitive, with-ablative) generous with, lavish of

Teenoorgestelde van

vacuus, carēns, expers, viduus

Sinonieme

amplus

latus

largificus

Vertalings

bountiful

breit

widmend

freigiebig

großzügig

weit

edelmütig

πλατύς

φαρδύς

χουβαρδάς

ample

openhanded

open handed

wide

رحب

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

[ˈɫar.ɡʊs]

Etimologie (Engels)

Unknown. Often connected with Proto-Indo-European *leh₂y- (“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. Compare also Ancient Greek λᾱρῑνός (lārīnós, “fattened; fatty”), with -r- as in Latin perhaps coming from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂-r-; this could further be a different suffixed form of the same Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to fatten; fat”) whence *leh₂-y-, notwithstanding some phonetic and morphological difficulties. These roots are however disputed and more likely reflect Mediterranean substrate words or Wanderwörter, while Latin lāridum is thought to be a borrowing from Ancient Greek.
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 as well as the *a.
Prósper, presuming a sound law in which *d became *l before *a, derives largus from Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁gʰós via a sequence of either *dlāɣos > *dālɣos (with metathesis) > *lālɣos > *lalgos > largus (with dissimilation), or alternatively *dalaɣos > *lalaɣos > *lalɣos (with syncope) > *lalgos > largus. (Note that these lambdacisms can alternatively be viewed as assimilation to the internal *l even if the sound law is not accepted.)