Translation
far; by far
Examples
.
He is far away.
a .
He lives far from his homeland.
melius .
This is far better.
maximus .
He was by far the greatest of them all.
a .
They pitched camp not far from the river.
is the adverb of and does two quite different things. Literally it is distance: "far off, a long way", and "far from" is a or with the ABLATIVE, not a bare case.
Figuratively it is the standard intensifier in front of a comparative or a superlative, "by far": melior, maximus. Latin much prefers here to , which belongs with comparatives, and the superlative especially wants . Its opposite is "near" and, awkwardly for learners, also means "almost". gives Italian lungi and French loin.
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