pinguis

From Proto-Italic *pīngwis, from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat”), maybe contaminated by *bʰenǵʰ- (“fat, thick”).

Cognate with German feist (“fat, plump, obese”). Related also to Dutch vet (“fat”), German fett (“fat, corpulent”), English fat, Icelandic feitur (“fat”). See also pix (“pitch, tar, resin”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpin.ɡʷis/, [ˈpɪŋɡʷɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpin.ɡwis/, [ˈpiŋɡwis]

• Audio (educated guess for Classical)

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pinguis (neuter pingue, superlative pinguissimus); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. fat, plump
2. thick, dense
3. (of taste) dull, insipid, not pungent
4. (of wine) oily, rich, full-bodied
5. (of land) fertile, rich
6. (figuratively, of the mind) heavy, dull, stupid, obtuse
7. (figuratively) bold, strong
8. (figuratively) quiet, comfortable, easy
9. (phonology) of the sound l, velarized (cf. dark l)

   Antonym: exīlis

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• (dense, thick): crassus, densus
• (dull): hebes, obēsus
• (fat, plump): corpulentus, opīmus

• “pinguis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pinguis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pinguis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • with no intelligence or skill: crassa or pingui Minerva (proverb.)