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prolific

English

Alternative forms

  • prolifick (obsolete)

Etymology

1640–1650: from French prolifique, from Latin proles (offspring) and facere (to make).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p???l?f.?k/, /?p?o??l?f.?k/
  • Rhymes: -?f?k
  • Hyphenation: pro?li?fic

Adjective

prolific (comparative more prolific, superlative most prolific)

  1. Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
  2. Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance
    • 2007, Ted Jones, The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers, 58:
      However appealing Antibes may be to migrant authors, indigenous ones are relatively scarce. A notable exception is Jacques Audiberti, Antibes-born novelist and prolific playwright who wrote in the turn-of-the-century surrealist style, with titles that translate as Slaughter, or In Favour of Infanticide.
  3. (botany) Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.

Synonyms

  • fertile
  • (producing offspring or fruit in abundance): fecund
  • (producing results or works in abundance): See also Thesaurus:productive

Derived terms

Translations

References

  • prolific in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Romanian

Etymology

From French prolifique

Adjective

prolific m or n (feminine singular prolific?, masculine plural prolifici, feminine and neuter plural prolifice)

  1. prolific

Declension

Related terms

  • prolificitate

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ample

English

Etymology

From late Middle English ample, from Middle French ample, from Latin amplus (large), probably for ambiplus (full on both sides), the last syllable akin to Latin plenus (full).

Pronunciation

  • (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æm.p?l/
  • Rhymes: -æmp?l

Adjective

ample (comparative ampler, superlative amplest)

  1. Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; for example spacious, roomy or widely extended.
  2. Fully sufficient; abundant; plenty
  3. Not contracted or brief; not concise; extended; diffusive

Synonyms

  • full, spacious, extensive, wide, capacious, abundant, plentiful, plenteous, copious, bountiful; rich, liberal, munificent
  • See also Thesaurus:ample
  • (large): See also Thesaurus:large
  • (fully sufficient): See also Thesaurus:abundant

Related terms

Translations

References

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

Anagrams

  • Maple, Palme, maple, pelma

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin amplus.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?am.pl?/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /?am.ple/

Adjective

ample (feminine ampla, masculine and feminine plural amples)

  1. wide
  2. ample, plentiful

Derived terms

  • amplada
  • amplament
  • amplària

Related terms

  • ampliar

Further reading

  • “ample” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “ample” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  • “ample” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “ample” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Latin amplus (large).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??pl/

Adjective

ample (plural amples)

  1. plentiful, abundant, copious, profuse, ample
  2. (of clothes) loose, baggy

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

ampl? (comparative amplius, superlative amplissim?)

  1. amply, largely

Etymology 2

Adjective

ample

  1. vocative masculine singular of amplus

References

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • emple

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ample, from Old French ample, from Latin amplus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?amp?l/, /??mp?l/

Adjective

ample

  1. (Late Middle English) ample, copious, profuse

Related terms

  • amplifiyen

Descendants

  • English: ample
  • Scots: ample

References

  • “ample, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-04.

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