locuples

Traditionally derived from locus and pleō. 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.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.ku.pleːs/, [ˈɫ̪ɔkʊpɫ̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.ku.ples/, [ˈlɔːkuples]

locuplēs (genitive locuplētis, comparative locuplētior, superlative locuplētissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. possessing large, landed property
2. rich, wealthy

   Synonyms: opulentus, opulens, dives, dis, ditis

   Antonyms: inops, pauper, egens

   • 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.)

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• → English: locuplete

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a witness worthy of all credit: testis locuples