amplus

Latin

Etymology

Disputed.

• Perhaps from Proto-Italic *amlos (“seizable”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-lo-s, from *h₃emh₃- (“to grab”), with etymological meaning "graspable". Related to ampla (“handle, grip”).
• Otherwise for ambiplus (“full on both sides”), composed of ambi- (“both”) and an element akin to plēnus (“full”) (and more distantly to plūs (“more”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈam.pɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈam.plus]

Adjective

amplus (feminine ampla, neuter amplum, comparative amplior, superlative amplissimus, adverb amplē or ampliter); first/second-declension adjective

1. large, spacious, roomy
2. abundant, ample
   • 20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horatius, Epistulae I.XV:

     Nīl melius turdō, nīl vulvā pulchrius amplā.

     Nothing is better than a thrush, nothing more beautiful than a plump sow's womb.

3. (figuratively, of force) impetuous, violent, strong
4. magnificent, splendid, glorious
5. esteemed, distinguished, well-regarded

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	amplus	ampla	amplum		amplī	amplae	ampla
genitive	amplī	amplae	amplī		amplōrum	amplārum	amplōrum
dative	amplō	amplae	amplō		amplīs
accusative	amplum	amplam	amplum		amplōs	amplās	ampla
ablative	amplō	amplā	amplō		amplīs
vocative	ample	ampla	amplum		amplī	amplae	ampla

Derived terms

• amplē
• amplificō
• amplio
• ampliter
• amplitūdō
• amplius
• ampliusculus
• examplō
• peramplus

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: ampru
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ampio
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansh: ampel
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: ample
  • Franco-Provençal: amplo
  • French: ample
    • → English: ample
  • Occitan: ample
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: anchu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: ancho
    • Galician: ancho
    • Portuguese: ancho
  • Spanish: ancho

Borrowings:

• → Galician: amplo
• → Italian: amplio
• → Middle Welsh: amyl
  • Welsh: aml
• → Portuguese: amplo
• → Romanian: amplu
• → Spanish: amplo, amplio

References

• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “amplus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 488

Further reading

• “amplus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amplus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “amplus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a man who has held many offices: amplis honoribus usus (Sall. Iug. 25. 4)
    

Anagrams

• palmus