different between large vs macrocephalic

English

Etymology

From Middle English large, from Old French large, from Latin larga, feminine of largus (“abundant, plentiful, copious, large, much”). Mostly displaced Middle English stoor, stour (“large, great”) (from Old English st?r) and muchel (“large, great”) (from Old English my?el).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l??d??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Adjective

large (comparative larger, superlative largest)

1. Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

2. (obsolete) Abundant; ample.
3. (archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
   • 1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics

     I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.

4. (obsolete) Free; unencumbered.

   • Of burdens all he set the Paynims large.

5. (obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
6. (nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.

Synonyms

• big, huge, giant, gigantic, enormous, stour, great, mickle, largeish
• See also Thesaurus:large

Antonyms

• small, tiny, minuscule

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

large (countable and uncountable, plural larges)

1. (music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
2. (obsolete) Liberality, generosity.
3. (slang, plural: large) A thousand dollars/pounds.

   Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large.
4. A large serving of something.

   One small coffee and two larges, please.

Derived terms

• at large

Adverb

large

1. (nautical) Before the wind.

Further reading

• large in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• large in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Agler, Alger, Elgar, Ragle, ergal, glare, lager, regal

French

Etymology

From Old French large, from Latin largus, larga, largum (“abundant, plentiful, copious, large, much”). The feminine is inherited, but for the masculine, Latin largum (the masculine and neuter accusative) developed into Old French larc, which was discarded.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la??/
• (Paris)
• Homophone: larges
• Hyphenation: large

Adjective

large (plural larges)

1. wide, broad
2. large
3. generous

Derived terms

• de long en large
• en long en large
• large d'esprit
• ratisser large

Related terms

• largesse

Noun

large m (plural larges)

1. open sea
2. width

Synonyms

• (open sea): haute mer
• (width): largeur

Derived terms

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: laj
• Haitian Creole: laj
• Karipúna Creole French: laj
• Louisiana Creole French: laj, larj

Anagrams

• Alger, grêla, régal, régla

Further reading

• “large” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

larg? (comparative largius, superlative largissim?)

1. munificently, generously, liberally.
2. abundantly, copiously.
3. to a great extent.

Etymology 2

Adjective

large

1. vocative masculine singular of largus

References

• large in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• large in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norman

Etymology

From Old French large, from Latin largus (“abundant, plentiful, copious, large, much”).

Adjective

large m or f

1. (Jersey) wide

Derived terms

Noun

large m (plural larges)

1. (Jersey, nautical) open sea, deep sea

   Synonym: plieine mé

Old French

Alternative forms

• larc (Roman de Renard, "wide")

Etymology

From Latin largus, larga.

Adjective

large m (oblique and nominative feminine singular large)

1. generous
2. large; big
3. wide (when used to differentiate between height, width and length)

Descendants

• ? Middle English: large
  • English: large
• Middle French: large
  • French: large
    • Antillean Creole: laj
    • Haitian Creole: laj
    • Karipúna Creole French: laj
    • Louisiana Creole French: laj, larj
• Norman: large (Guernsey, Jersey)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (large, supplement)
• large on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Etymology

from Ancient Greek ?????? (makrós, “long”) + ?????? (kephal?, “head”).

Adjective

macrocephalic (comparative more macrocephalic, superlative most macrocephalic)

1. Having an abnormally large or elongated head.
   • 1873, John Wells Foster, Pre-Historic Races of the United States, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Chapter 9, p. 327,^[1]

     In 1849, M. Rathke stated that artificially-formed skulls had been found near Kertch, in the Crimea, and called attention to certain passages in the works of Hippocrates and Strabo, overlooked by medical writers, in which these authors speak of the practice of modifying the shape of the head by means of bandages, as being in use among the macrocephalic (long-headed) Scythians.

   • 1937, H. G. Wells, Star Begotten, Chapter 6, § 2,^[2]

     This intimation, breaking through his resistances, evoked first the dread of an abnormal child, prematurely wise, macrocephalic, with dreadful tentacular hands.... So his essential humanity presented the thing.

   • 1979, Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Part I,

     […] that I couldn’t return her gaze directly had also to do with this unharmonious relation between body and skull, and its implication, to me, of some early misfortune, of something vital lost or beaten down, and, by way of compensation, something vastly overdone. I thought of a trapped chick that could not get more than its beaked skull out of the encircling shell. I thought of those macrocephalic boulders the Easter Island heads.

   • 2003, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Developmental Plasticity and Evolution, Oxford University Press, Part II, Chapter 11, p. 228,^[3]

     The males of P. portalis [bees] are strikingly dimorphic: fewer than 50% of them are “normal” winged males that mate with females at flowers, and the remainder are large, flightless, macrocephalic fighters that remain in the natal nest, where they fight to the death with competitors.

   • 2010, Susan Klugman and Susan J. Gross, “Ashkenazi Jewish Screening in the Twenty-first Century,” in Anthony R. Gregg and Joe Leigh Simpson (eds.), Genetic Screening and Counseling, an issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, March 2010, Volume 37, No. 1, p. 40,^[4]

     TSD is a neurodegenerative disorder that presents in the first year of life and is fatal in early childhood. […] Infants are classically macrocephalic because of storage material accumulation in the brain and have the characteristic cherry red spot on their macula.

2. (geography) Characterized by a disproportionate concentration of population and activities in a single centre, to the detriment of other areas.
   • 2003, Michael Bess, The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000, University of Chicago Press, Part I, Chapter 2, p. 49,^[5]

     In 1947, the geographer Jean-François Gravier published a book that became an instant sensation: Paris et le désert français. Gravier argued that France was becoming a seriously deformed nation, a macrocephalic invalid: Paris, the megalopolis, was sucking all the lifeblood from the provinces, leading to a dangerous imbalance between center and periphery.

   • 2007, R. Kalra, “High Technology and Urban Development in Bangalore, India,” in Jay D. Gatrell and Neil Reid (eds.), Enterprising Worlds: A Geographic Perspective on Economics, Environments & Ethics, Dordrecht: Springer, p. 74,^[6]

     Several developing countries are characterized by rapid urbanization, macrocephalic urban systems, high urban densities and various socio economic and environmental problems.

Related terms

• macrocephaly

See also

• normocephalic
• microcephalic

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