Adjective: largo
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | largo |
| Singular f. | larga |
| Plural m. | largos |
| Plural f. | largas |
Sample Sentences
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1460, Rui Vasques (J. A. Souto Cabo, editor), Corónica de Iria, page 131 (And he made a dormitory for them, and a refectory, and houses around the church; and he gave to them many good bells, and books, and ornaments and ample incomes and possessions)
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Mirà que a Vila he vos larga. (Note that the town is large, friend.) [1807, anonymous author, Segundo diálogo dos esterqueiros:]
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Boas tardes, meu compadre,
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Fólgome moito de acharvos;
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Tempo era que nos vísemos,
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¿Qué hai de novo por Laraño?
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Gracias a Dios hai saúde
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Pro do demáis non è largo;
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Non podo ter dous reás,
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E decote traballando. ("Good afternoon, my friend,
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I'm so glad to meet you;
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it was about time for us to meet
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What are the news in Laraño?"
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"Thanks God, there's health
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but for the rest, it is not plentiful;
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I cannot have a pair or reals,
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and I'm working all the time.") [1845, Vicente Turnes, Diálogo entre Silvestre Cajaraville e Domingo Magariños:]
Adjectives inflected like largo
preguiceiro,
metafórico,
perdulário,
metafísico,
anxélico,
serbio,
sañudo,
severo,
seguro,
sedoso,
sabido,
atmosférico,
estremeiro,
romántico,
metódico,
satisfeito,
sonoro,
sollío,
sobexo,
sisudo, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin largus (“large; abounding”). See: Latin Adjectives '
largus'.
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