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Latin
Etymology
From prō + fundus (“bottom”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
profundus (feminine profunda, neuter profundum, comparative profundior, superlative profundissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- deep, profound
- intense, extreme, profound; immoderate
- boundless, vast; bottomless
- thick, dense
- obscure, unknown, mysterious
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “profundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “profundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- profundus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- profundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to fall down into the abyss: in profundum deici