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English
Noun
prodigus
- (law, obsolete) A prodigal person; a spendthrift.
Latin
Etymology
From prōdigō + -us.
Pronunciation
Adjective
prōdigus (feminine prōdiga, neuter prōdigum); first/second-declension adjective
- wasteful, lavish, prodigal
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “prodigus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “prodigus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- prodigus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.