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Latin
Etymology
Traditionally derived from locus (“place”) and pleō (“to fill”).[1] However, Nussbaum (2016) rejects a connection to locus (“place”) for semantic reasons, namely that locus does not refer to possessed land in particular. He instead connects the element locu- with Indo-Iranian terms like Sanskrit राशि (rāśi, “quantity, heap, number”) and reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *loḱis as ancestral to the two, making a compound "abundance-filled" in Latin.[2]
Pronunciation
Adjective
locuplēs (genitive locuplētis, comparative locuplētior, superlative locuplētissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective
- possessing large, landed property
- rich, wealthy
- Synonyms: opulentus, opulens, dives, dis, ditis
- Antonyms: inops, pauper, egens
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 5.279-281:
- ‘cētera luxuriae nōndum īnstrūmenta vigēbant,
aut pecus aut lātam dīves habēbat humum;
hinc etiam locuplēs, hinc ipsa pecūnia dicta est.’- “The other instruments of luxury were not yet thriving: a rich man had either a herd or wide land; hence also ‘wealthy’, for this reason ‘money’ itself is named.”
(The poetic voice is that of Flora (mythology). An owner of much land was ‘loci plenus’ or ‘full of land’, hence ‘locuples’; use of ‘pecunia’ as a word for ‘money’ came from the value of a ‘pecus’, a herd or flock of cattle, sheep or other livestock.)
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “-pleō (> Derivatives: > locuplēs, -ētis)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 472-3
- ^ Nussbaum, Alan J. (2016) “Replacing locus ‘place’ in Latin locuplēs”, in Dieter Gunkel, Joshua T. Katz, Brent Vine, Michael Weiss, editors, Sahasram Ati Srajas: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Stephanie W. Jamison, Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, retrieved June 5, 2023
Further reading
- “locuples”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “locuples”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- locuples in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a witness worthy of all credit: testis locuples