Ampia

Ampia is the feminine singular form of the Italian adjective ampio. It describes something wide, spacious, or expansive, and is used before feminine nouns with correct agreement: una sala ampia, zone ampie. The masculine form is ampio, the masculine plural is also used as amici? No—correct isampi for masculine plural, and ampie for feminine plural. The feminine plural ampie corresponds to multiple wide things, such as stanze ampie.

Common uses include both physical spaces and figurative breadth. For example, una casa ampia describes a house with ample interior space, while un’ampia gamma di possibilità conveys a broad range of possibilities. The adjective is usually placed before the noun in contemporary Italian, as in una sala ampia, but in certain literary or emphatic styles it can follow the noun, for instance una sala luminosa, ampia e confortevole.

Etymology traces ampia to the Latin amplus, meaning full or ample, and it forms a productive pair with the masculine ampio. Related noun forms include ampiezza, which denotes amplitude or breadth, whereas ampio and ampia are adjectives used to qualify nouns.

Ampia is not typically used as a proper noun in standard Italian, and its meaning remains lexical rather than identifying a specific place or entity. In sum, ampia denotes considerable width or extent and is a common descriptor in everyday and formal Italian.