LAVISH Copy link • LAVISH 1. adj., prodigus (of persons): profusus, effusus (of persons and things): lavish of anything, prodigus, effusus, in aliqua re: lavish expenditure, sumtus profusus: to be lavish of, effundere; profundere: ☞ prodigere; obsolete, revived after the Golden Age; to be avoided. 2. v. effundere; profundere; conficere, consumere; (The words are found in this connection and order.) effundere et consumere (to consume or destroy by lavishing); abligurire, lacerare (e.g., patria bona): ☞ not prodigere, Vid: the foregoing word.