largus

Meaning

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

Concepts

bountiful

openhanded

open handed

wide

Opposite of

vacuus, carēns, expers, viduus

Synonyms

amplus

latus

largificus

Translations

ample

breit

edelmütig

freigiebig

großzügig

weit

widmend

πλατύς

φαρδύς

χουβαρδάς

généreux

large

splendide

donnant

رحب

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈɫar.ɡʊs]

Etymology

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.)