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Webster 1913 Edition
Optime
Op′ti-me
,Noun.
[L., adv. fr.
optimus
the best.] One of those who stand in the second rank of honors, immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge, England. They are divided into senior and junior optimes.
Definition 2024
optime
optime
See also: optimé
English
Noun
optime (plural optimes)
- (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.
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Latin
Etymology 1
From optimus (“very good”) + -ē.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈop.ti.meː/
Adverb
optimē (not comparable)
- very well; excellently
Related terms
See also
Etymology 2
Inflected form of optimus (“very good”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈop.ti.me/
Adjective
optime
- 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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “optime”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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(ambiguous) to deserve well at some one's hands; to do a service to..: bene, praeclare (melius, optime) mereri de aliquo
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(ambiguous) my dear father: pater optime or carissime, mi pater (vid. sect. XII. 10)
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(ambiguous) to hope well of a person: bene, optime (meliora) sperare de aliquo (Nep. Milt. 1. 1)
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(ambiguous) to have the good of the state at heart: bene, optime sentire de re publica
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(ambiguous) to deserve well at some one's hands; to do a service to..: bene, praeclare (melius, optime) mereri de aliquo
Romanian
Etymology
opt + -ime; compare Aromanian uptimi.
Noun
optime f (plural optimi)
- an eighth (one of eight equal parts of a whole)
Spanish
Verb
optime