profundus

Latin

Etymology

From prō + fundus (“bottom”).

PIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /proˈfun.dus/, [prɔˈfʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proˈfun.dus/, [proˈfun̪d̪us]

Adjective

profundus (feminine profunda, neuter profundum, comparative profundior, superlative profundissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. deep, profound
2. intense, extreme, profound; immoderate
3. boundless, vast; bottomless
4. thick, dense
5. obscure, unknown, mysterious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	profundus	profunda	profundum		profundī	profundae	profunda
genitive	profundī	profundae	profundī		profundōrum	profundārum	profundōrum
dative	profundō	profundae	profundō		profundīs
accusative	profundum	profundam	profundum		profundōs	profundās	profunda
ablative	profundō	profundā	profundō		profundīs
vocative	profunde	profunda	profundum		profundī	profundae	profunda

Derived terms

• profundē
• profunditās
• profundum

Related terms

• fundus

Descendants

• Catalan: pregon, → profund
• Friulian: profont
• Italian: profondo
• Occitan: prigond
• Old French: parfont, profont
  • → English: profound
  • French: profond
• Old Galician-Portuguese: profundo, profũdo
  • Galician: profundo
  • Portuguese: profundo
• Sicilian: perfunnu
• Spanish: hondo (possibly)
• → Asturian: profundu
• → Catalan: profund
• → Romanian: profund
• → Sicilian: prufunnu
• → Spanish: profundo

References

• “profundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “profundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• profundus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• profundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to fall down into the abyss: in profundum deici