# largus
## Latin
### Etymology

Uncertain. Often connected with Proto-Indo-European *lay- (“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 however Ancient Greek λᾱρῑνός (lārīnós, “fattened; fatty”).
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.
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 > largus (with dissimilation), or alternatively *dalaɣos > largus (with lambdacism, syncope, and dissimilation).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈlar.ɡus/, [ˈɫ̪ärɡʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /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, munificent
* (with ablative or genitive) generous with, lavish of

#### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

#### Derived terms

* largē
* largificus
* largifluus
* largiloquus
* largior
* largitās
* largiter
* largitūdō
* largitus
* largiusculus

#### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: làrgu, làlgu
* Balkano-Romance:
** Aromanian: largu
** Megleno-Romanian: larg
** Romanian: larg
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Corsican: largu
** Dalmatian: luarc, luarg
** Istriot: largo
** Italian: largo
** Neapolitan: làrio
    Tarantino: lario
** Sicilian: largu, làricu
** Venetan: łargo
*** → Sabir: largo
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: larc
** Ladin: lèrch
** Romansch: lartg, larg
* Gallo-Italic:
** Emilian: lèrg
** Ligurian: largo
** Lombard: larg, lercc
** Piedmontese: largh
** Romagnol: lergh
* Northern Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: lârjo
** Old French: large
*** Middle French: large
**** French: large
***** → Persian: لارژ (lârž)
*** Norman: large (Guernsey, Jersey)
*** → Middle English: large
**** English: large
* Southern Gallo-Romance:
** Old Catalan: larch
*** Catalan: llarg
** Old Occitan: larc
*** Occitan: larg
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: largo
** Old Leonese:
*** Asturian: llargu, ḷḷargu
*** Extremaduran: largu
*** Leonese: llargu, ḷḷargu
*** Mirandese: lhargo
** Old Galician-Portuguese: largo
*** Fala: largu
*** Galician: largo
*** Portuguese: largo (see there for further descendants)
** Old Spanish: largo
*** Ladino: largo
*** Spanish: largo (see there for further descendants)
* Borrowings:
** → Albanian: larg
** → Proto-Brythonic: *llarɣ
*** Middle Welsh: llary
** → Translingual: Largus

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lārgus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 327
* ↑ Prósper, Blanca María (2019) “What became of “Sabine l”? An Overlooked Proto-Italic Sound Law”, in The Journal of Indo-European Studies, volume 47, number 3 & 4, pages 483-484
* “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