multitudinous
Meanings
adj
- Existing in multitudes or great numbers; very numerous; innumerable.
- Comprising a large number of features or parts; manifold, multiple, myriad; also, having a large number of forms.
- Of a sound: made by many people.
- Of a body of water, the sea, etc.: huge, vast; also, having innumerable ripples.
- Followed by with: crowded with many people or things.
- Of or relating to the multitude (“common people; masses”).
- Very fruitful or productive; prolific.
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Learned borrowing from Latin multitūdin- (the oblique stem of multitūdō (“great number (of people), multitude”)) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting the presence of a quality in any degree (typically an abundance)). Multitūdō is derived from multus (“many; much”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“to be late; to worry”)) + -tūdō (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition or state). By surface analysis, multitude + -in- (interfix used before Latinate suffixes appended to nouns ending with -itude or -tude) + -ous.
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