English
ampliate
Ampliate comes from Latin ampliātus ‘widened, extended, enlarged, increased,…’, from ampliō ‘to make wider’, and ultimately from amplus ‘large, wide, ample’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEamplus‘large, wide, ample’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEampliō‘to make wider’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEampliātus‘widened, extended, enlarged, increased, amplified, augmented, magnified’past participle of ampliō
- Englishearliest quotation 1648ampliate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEamplus‘large, wide, ample’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEampliō‘to make wider’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEampliātus‘widened, extended, enlarged, increased, amplified, augmented, magnified’past participle of ampliō
- Englishearliest quotation 1648ampliate
Earliest quotation: 1648, Joseph Hall, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […]: “Hovv glad ſhould vve be rather to ampliate the…”
Equivalent to ample + -i- + -ate
Latin amplus ‘large’
Old French ample
Middle French ample
Middle English ample ‘ample, copious, profuse’
English ample
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- ‘to fill’
people, public, popular, plus, supply, complete, poll, folk, completion, implement, supplement, manipulation, comply, accomplish, complement, plural, plethora, depletion, puri, replete, volk, plebs, deplete, plebeian, 76 more
through Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós ‘full’
through Latin plēnus ‘full’
plenty, plain, plenary, replenish, plenum, 16 more
through Latin amplus ‘large, wide, ample’
Today it means
adj Having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin amplus / ampliate