locuples
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlo.ku.pleːs/, [ˈɫ̪ɔkʊpɫ̪eːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlo.ku.ples/, [ˈlɔːkuples]
Adjective
locuplēs (genitive locuplētis, comparative locuplētior, superlative locuplētissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective
- possessing large, landed property
- rich, wealthy
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.279-281:
- ‘cētera luxuriae nōndum īnstrūmenta vigēbant,
aut pecus aut lātam dīves habēbat humum;
hinc etiam locuplēs, hinc ipsā pecūniā dicta est.’- “The other instruments of luxury were not yet thriving: a rich man had either a herd or wide land; hence also [the word for] ‘wealthy’, [and] 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.)
- “The other instruments of luxury were not yet thriving: a rich man had either a herd or wide land; hence also [the word for] ‘wealthy’, [and] for this reason ‘money’ itself is named.”
- ‘cētera luxuriae nōndum īnstrūmenta vigēbant,
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | locuplēs | locuplētēs | locuplētia | ||
| Genitive | locuplētis | locuplētium | |||
| Dative | locuplētī | locuplētibus | |||
| Accusative | locuplētem | locuplēs | locuplētēs | locuplētia | |
| Ablative | locuplētī | locuplētibus | |||
| Vocative | locuplēs | locuplētēs | locuplētia | ||
Descendants
- → English: locuplete
References
- “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
- a witness worthy of all credit: testis locuples
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