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multitudinous

mul·ti·tu·dinous

UK/ˌmʌltɪˈtjuːdɪnəs/ US/-ˈt͡ʃuː-/ uncommon literary obsolete rare

adjective

1.

too numerous to be counted

  • “incalculable riches”
  • “countless hours”
  • “an infinite number of reasons”
  • “innumerable difficulties”
  • “the multitudinous seas”
  • “myriad stars”
  • “untold thousands”
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Origin

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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