profusus

Latin

Etymology

    Passive perfect participle of prŏfundō.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    profūsus (feminine profūsa, neuter profūsum, superlative profūsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

    1. excessive, lavish, profuse, extravagant

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    Descendants

    • → English: profuse
    • → French: profus

    References

    • “profusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “profusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “profusus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • prodigal expenditure: sumptus effusi (vid. sect. IX. 2, note Cf. effusa fuga...) or profusi