profuse

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English

Etymology

From Latin profusus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɹəˈfjuːs/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːs

Adjective

profuse (comparative more profuse, superlative most profuse)

  1. abundant or generous to the point of excess; copious; volubly expressed.
    She grew profuse amounts of zucchini and pumpkins.
    profuse hospitality; profuse apologies; profuse expenditure
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
      On a green shadie Bank profuse of Flours

Translations

Verb

profuse (third-person singular simple present profuses, present participle profusing, simple past and past participle profused)

  1. (obsolete) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

profuse

  1. feminine singular of profus

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /proˈfu.ze/
  • Rhymes: -uze
  • Hyphenation: pro‧fù‧se

Etymology 1

Verb

profuse

  1. third-person singular past historic of profondere

Etymology 2

Participle

profuse f pl

  1. feminine plural of profuso

Latin

Adjective

profūse

  1. vocative masculine singular of profūsus

References

  • “profuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “profuse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • profuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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