largiter Latin · revision 34163

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la lārgus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''largiter''' (comparative largius, superlative largissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lārgus|-ter|t1=abundant, generous]].^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[m|la|lārgus]], whose origin is unclear: he doubts that its long vowel is original, which undermines the explanation by Walde and Hofmann and by Pokorny as a compound meaning “carrying fat”, and he finds the comparison with Greek and with Latin words for fat and bacon uncertain and semantically unconvincing.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler record it first in Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who has it with a genitive, of plenty of gold and silver: ''credo edepol ego illic inesse argenti et auri largiter'', “I believe, by Pollux, there is plenty of silver and gold in there”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is with generous provision, in large quantities, abundantly; the OLD's earliest quotation for this is from a speech of Cato, ''repente largiter habere, repente nihil'', “suddenly to have plenty, suddenly nothing”.^(OLD 2012) With a genitive it means a large amount of, plenty of, as in Plautus and in Apuleius' ''largiter aquae'', “water in abundance”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913) It also means to a great extent, greatly: Plautus has ''reor peccatum largiter'', “I think a great mistake has been made”, and Caesar ''largiter posse'', “to have great power”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Lucretius and Horace use it too, and Lucretius and Apuleius have it of giving generously.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it with a genitive and in the sense “greatly”.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato has ''repente largiter habere''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar has ''largiter posse''.^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius has ''largiter aquae''.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # With generous provision, in large quantities, [[m|en|abundantly]], profusely, [[m|en|liberally]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Wiktionary)

+ # (with a genitive) A large amount of, [[m|en|plenty]] of.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # To a great extent, [[m|en|greatly]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lārgior]]

+ * [[lārgitās]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Its comparative ''largius'' is usually counted under [[lārgē]], the other adverb of [[lārgus]].^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}