altaltissimo
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English
Etymology
Probably derived from Italian alto + altissimo.
Noun
altaltissimo (countable and uncountable, plural altaltissimos)
- (rare, literary) The highest point of something; the pinnacle or apex.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Old Pictures in Florence”, in Men and Women, volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, page 47:
- Then one shall propose (in a speech, curt Tuscan, / Sober, expurgate, spare of an "issimo,") / Ending our half-told tale of Cambuscan, / Turning the Bell-tower's altaltissimo.
- 1912, W H Williamson, The Stolen Bride, Boston, M.A.: Dana Estes & Company, page 103:
- Gordon, too, carried plenty in his hands, but principally he went for his heart's sake, and that will take a man to altaltissimo.
- 1975, Hal Porter, The Extra, Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 87:
- Beatrice Davis's office, a mere attic above Angus and Robertson's bookshop at 89 Castlereagh Street, is at the altaltissimo of a perilous steep of strait wooden stairs.
- 2006, Pt. Gopal Sharma, Pracharya Sewa Ram Jaipuria, Teach Yourself Numerology, New Delhi: Lotus Press, →ISBN, page 14:
- Persons born under this number always rise high in their respective professions. To achieve summum bonum, the highest altaltissimo in their profession, is their main objective.
References
- “altaltissimo, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
