amplus

Disputed.

• Perhaps from Proto-Italic *amlos (“seizable”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-lo-s, from *h₃emh₃- (“to grab”), with etymological meaning "graspable". Related to ampla (“handle, grip”).^[1]
• Otherwise for ambiplus (“full on both sides”), composed of ambi- (“both”) and an element akin to plēnus (“full”) (and more distantly to plūs (“more”)).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈam.plus/, [ˈämpɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈam.plus/, [ˈämplus]

amplus (feminine ampla, neuter amplum, comparative amplior, superlative amplissimus, adverb amplē or ampliter); first/second-declension adjective

1. large, spacious, roomy
2. abundant, ample
3. (figuratively, of force) impetuous, violent, strong
4. magnificent, splendid, glorious
5. esteemed, distinguished, well-regarded

First/second-declension adjective.

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ampio
• North Italian:
  • Romansch: ampel
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: ampru
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: ample
  • Franco-Provençal: amplo
  • French: ample
    • → English: ample
  • Occitan: ample
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: anchu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: ancho
    • Galician: ancho
    • Portuguese: ancho
  • Spanish: ancho
• Borrowings:
  • → Galician: amplo
  • → Middle Welsh: amyl
    • Welsh: aml
  • → Portuguese: amplo
  • → Romanian: amplu
  • → Spanish: amplo, amplio

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “amplus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 488

• “amplus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amplus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amplus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a man who has held many offices: amplis honoribus usus (Sall. Iug. 25. 4)
    

• palmus