amplo

• amplou (Comtois)
• inpyo (Fribourgeois)

Inherited from Latin amplus.

amplo (feminine ampla, masculine plural amplos, feminine plural amples) (ORB, broad)

1. extensive, plentiful

• amplor

• ample in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• amplo in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “amplus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 487

amplō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of amplus

• “amplo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• amplo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin amplus (“spacious; ample”). Doublet of ancho.

• Hyphenation: am‧plo

amplo (feminine ampla, masculine plural amplos, feminine plural amplas)

1. ample, wide

   Synonyms: ancho, largo

   Antonym: estreito

   Caminho amplo. ― Wide pathway.

2. spacious

   Synonym: espaçoso

   Amplos aposentos. ― Ample dwellings.

3. abundant, abounding (fully sufficient)

   Synonyms: abundante, farto, extenso

   Ampla evidência. ― Abounding evidence.

More commonly than other adjectives, it may be used preceding the noun it modifies.

• IPA^(key): /ˈamplo/ [ˈãm.plo]
• Rhymes: -amplo
• Syllabification: am‧plo

amplo (feminine ampla, masculine plural amplos, feminine plural amplas)

1. obsolete form of amplio

• “amplo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024