Etymograph

English

ampliate

Ampliate comes from Latin ampliātus ‘widened, extended, enlarged, increased,…’, from ampliō ‘to make wider’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- ‘to fill’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pleh₁-1‘to fill’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pl̥h₁nós1‘full’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*plēnos1‘full’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEplēnus1‘full’uncertain
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEambiplus1uncertain
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEamplus1‘large, wide, ample’
  7. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEampliō2‘to make wider’
  8. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEampliātus2‘widened, extended, enlarged, increased, amplified, augmented, magnified’past participle of ampliō
  9. Englishearliest quotation 1648ampliate2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin amplio
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English ampliate
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1648, Joseph Hall, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […]: “Hovv glad ſhould vve be rather to ampliate the…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pleh₁-Wiktionary, Latin amplio‘to fill’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pl̥h₁nósWiktionary, Latin amplio‘full’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*plēnosWiktionary, Latin amplio‘full’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEplēnusWiktionary, Latin amplio‘full’uncertain
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEambiplusWiktionary, Latin ampliouncertain
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEamplusWiktionary, Latin amplio‘large, wide, ample’
  7. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEampliōWiktionary, English ampliate‘to make wider’
  8. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEampliātusWiktionary, English ampliate‘widened, extended, enlarged, increased, amplified, augmented, magnified’past participle of ampliō
  9. Englishearliest quotation 1648ampliateWiktionary, English ampliate. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1648, Joseph Hall, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […]: “Hovv glad ſhould vve be rather to ampliate the…”

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’

full, fill, fulsome, 22 more

through Latin plēnus ‘full’

plenty, plain, plenary, replenish, plenum, 16 more

through Latin amplus ‘large, wide, ample’

ample, 7 more

Today it means

adj Having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “ampliate”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin amplio. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- / ampliate

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