amplius

Amplius is the neuter comparative of amplus doing service as an adverb: more, further, longer. Two habits are worth having ready.

With numbers it does not need quam and does not disturb the case of what follows: "amplius mille homines" and "amplius tribus horis" are both normal, where a strict reading of the comparative would demand a quam or an ablative. Latin treats amplius here as a parenthetic "more than". With a negative it means "no longer, not any more": non amplius, nihil amplius, nemo amplius. In the courts it had a technical use as well, the formula amplius meaning that a jury wanted the case adjourned for further evidence rather than deciding it. English ample, amplify and amplitude come from the positive form.