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See also: optimé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin optimē (very well), in the phrase optimē disputāstī (you have disputed very well), formerly used in reporting results at Cambridge.

Pronunciation

Noun

optime (plural optimes)

  1. (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.
    • 1994, Michael J. Crowe, A History of Vector Analysis: The Evolution of the Idea of a Vectorial System, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 20:
      The winning of even a single optime was very rare. Upon winning the second optime, Hamilton “became a celebrity in the intellectual circle of Dublin; and invitations, embarrassing from their number, poured in upon him. . .” (2,I; 209)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin optimus (great).

Pronunciation

  • Audio (France (Vosges)):(file)

Adjective

optime (plural optimes)

  1. (obsolete, rare) great, optimum

Further reading

Interlingua

Pronunciation

Adjective

optime

  1. superlative degree of bon (best)

Latin

Etymology 1

Superlative of bene; from optimus (very good) + .

Pronunciation

Adverb

optimē

  1. (superlative degree of bene) very well; excellently
  2. thoroughly
  3. most opportunely, just in time

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Etymology 2

Inflected form of optimus (very good).

Pronunciation

Adjective

optime

  1. vocative masculine singular of optimus

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
  • Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti
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Romanian

Etymology

From opt + -ime; compare Aromanian uptimi.

Pronunciation

Noun

optime f (plural optimi)

  1. an eighth (one of eight equal parts of a whole)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
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Spanish

Verb

optime

  1. inflection of optimar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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