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Latin
Etymology
From cōpia + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cōpiōsus (feminine cōpiōsa, neuter cōpiōsum, comparative cōpiōsior, superlative cōpiōsissimus, adverb cōpiōsē); first/second-declension adjective
- copious, plentiful, abundant
- Synonyms: abundāns, cumulātus, largus, ūber, fēcundus
- Antonyms: vacuus, carēns, expers, viduus
- prolific
- eloquent
- Synonym: ēloquēns
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “copiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “copiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- copiosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to speak very fluently: copiose dicere
- (ambiguous) to entertain, regale a person: accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis)