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ultimus
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Noun
ultimus
- (academia) In an academic promotion ceremony, the person who graduates with the second best grades and receives his/her diploma last.
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Latin
Etymology
Superlative of ulter, from Proto-Italic *oltm̥mos, whence also Oscan 𐌞𐌋𐌕𐌉𐌖𐌌𐌀𐌌 (últiumam, acc sg fem).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈʊɫ.tɪ.mʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈul̪.t̪i.mus]
Adjective
ultimus (superlative, feminine ultima, neuter ultimum); first/second declension
- superlative degree of ulter
- (of space) the furthest or farthest, most distant, most remote, the utmost or uttermost, extreme, last
- (of time) last, final, ultimate, end
- ad ultimum ― at last, finally, at the last moment
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.248–249:
- “Nōs dēlūbra deum miserī, quibus ultimus esset
ille diēs, fēstā vēlāmus fronde per urbem.”- “We wretched [Trojans], for whom that was to be our final day, adorn the shrines of the gods with festival garlands throughout the city.”
(Believing that the war has ended the Trojans celebrate the presence of the wooden horse as a divine blessing.)
- “We wretched [Trojans], for whom that was to be our final day, adorn the shrines of the gods with festival garlands throughout the city.”
- “Nōs dēlūbra deum miserī, quibus ultimus esset
- (of space) the furthest or farthest, most distant, most remote, the utmost or uttermost, extreme, last
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Antonyms
- initiālis (first)
- orīginālis (first)
- proximus (next)
Descendants
- Catalan: últim
- → Dutch: ultiem
- →⇒ English: ultimate, ultimatum
- → Finnish: ultima, ultimo, ultimus, ⇒ ultimaatumi
- French: ultime
- Friulian: ultin
- Istriot: oûltima
- Italian: ultimo
- Neapolitan: ùrdemo, ùtemo
- Portuguese: último
- Romanian: ultim
- Sardinian: ùltimu, ùrtimu, ultimunu, urtimunu
- Sicilian: ùrtimu
- Spanish: último
References
- “ultimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ultimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ultimus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the most distant countries, the world's end: ultimae terrae
- to travel through the most remote countries: disiunctissimas ultimas terras peragrare (not permigrare)
- (ambiguous) to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
- the most distant countries, the world's end: ultimae terrae
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
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