optime
See also: optimé
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin optimē (“very well”), in the phrase optime disputasti ‘you have disputed very well’ (formerly used in reporting results at Cambridge).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɒptɪmeɪ/
Noun
optime (plural optimes)
- (Cambridge University) A student who graduates with second class ("senior optime") or third class ("junior optime") honours in mathematics, or (loosely) in any other subject.
See also
French
Pronunciation
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Related terms
Further reading
- “optime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈop.ti.meː/, [ˈɔpt̪ɪmeː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈop.ti.me/, [ˈɔpt̪ime]
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Adverb
optimē
- (superlative degree of bene) very well; excellently
- thoroughly
- most opportunely, just in time
See also
Etymology 2
Inflected form of optimus (“very good”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈop.ti.me/, [ˈɔpt̪ɪmɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈop.ti.me/, [ˈɔpt̪ime]
References
- “optime”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “optime”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- optime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to deserve well at some one's hands; to do a service to..: bene, praeclare (melius, optime) mereri de aliquo
- (ambiguous) my dear father: pater optime or carissime, mi pater (vid. sect. XII. 10)
- (ambiguous) to hope well of a person: bene, optime (meliora) sperare de aliquo (Nep. Milt. 1. 1)
- (ambiguous) to have the good of the state at heart: bene, optime sentire de re publica
- (ambiguous) to deserve well at some one's hands; to do a service to..: bene, praeclare (melius, optime) mereri de aliquo
- Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /opˈti.me/
Declension
Spanish
Verb
optime
- inflection of optimar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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