The corpus record — Latin

largifluus

flowing copiously

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Where it lives

De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k

What it meant

1. largifluus — de Vaan

largifluus 'flowing copiously' (Lucr.); (Margin 'to give away freely' (Cato+). The long a is explicitly indicated in one inscription. Since we find several lengthened forms of *-VrD- in Romance (e.g. orbus 'blind' for orbus\ it is not certain that the ο was original in Latin. This compromizes the etymology given by WH and IEW, They suggest an original form Vajes-ago- 'carrying fat' with a stem *laj-es- 'fat, bacon* … — [de Vaan, s.v. largifluus, p. 341]

2. largĭflŭus — Lewis & Short

largĭflŭus, a, um, adj.large-fluo,

I flowing copiously, copious (ante-class.): fons, Lucr. 5, 598.

In the wild

largifluum Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.598

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. largifluus (scan p. 341; entry #875).

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