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)

  1. (at 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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin optimus (“great”).

Adjective

optime (plural optimes)

  1. (obsolete, rare) great, optimum

Further reading

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈop.ti.me/

Adjective

optime

  1. (superlative degree of bon) best

Latin

Etymology 1

Superlative of bene; from optimus (“very good”) +‎ -ē.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈop.ti.meː/, [ˈɔp.tɪ.meː]
  • Audio (Classical)(file)

Adverb

optimē (not comparable)

  1. very well; excellently

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Etymology 2

Inflected form of optimus (“very good”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈop.ti.me/, [ˈɔp.tɪ.mɛ]

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

Romanian

Etymology

opt +‎ -ime; compare Aromanian uptimi.

Noun

optime f (plural optimi)

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

Spanish

Verb

optime

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of optimar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of optimar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of optimar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of optimar.
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