locuples
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Traditionally derived from locus (“place”) and pleō (“to fill”).[1] However, Nussbaum (2016) rejects a connection to locus (“place”) for semantic reasons, namely that locus does not refer to possessed land in particular. He instead connects the element locu- with Indo-Iranian terms like Sanskrit राशि (rāśi, “quantity, heap, number”) and reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *loḱis as ancestral to the two, making a compound "abundance-filled" in Latin.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈlo.ku.pleːs/, [ˈɫ̪ɔkʊpɫ̪eːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlo.ku.ples/, [ˈlɔːkuples]
Adjective
[edit]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 ipsa pecūnia 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
[edit]Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | locuplēs | locuplētēs | locuplētia | ||
| genitive | locuplētis | locuplētium locuplētum | |||
| dative | locuplētī | locuplētibus | |||
| accusative | locuplētem | locuplēs | locuplētēs | locuplētia | |
| ablative | locuplēte locuplētī |
locuplētibus | |||
| vocative | locuplēs | locuplētēs | locuplētia | ||
Descendants
[edit]- → English: locuplete
References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “-pleō (> Derivatives: > locuplēs, -ētis)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 472-3
- ^ Nussbaum, Alan J. (2016) “Replacing locus ‘place’ in Latin locuplēs”, in Dieter Gunkel, Joshua T. Katz, Brent Vine, Michael Weiss, editors, Sahasram Ati Srajas: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Stephanie W. Jamison[1], Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, retrieved June 5, 2023
Further reading
[edit]- “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[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a witness worthy of all credit: testis locuples
- a witness worthy of all credit: testis locuples