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Latin
Etymology
From earlier *extrezmo- < *exterezemo- < *exterisemo-, from Proto-Italic *eksterisemos. Equivalent to exter + -issimus. Same development as postrēmus and suprēmus. Compare with extimus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
extrēmus (feminine extrēma, neuter extrēmum); first/second declension
- superlative degree of exter
- situated at the end, edge, or tip
- extrēmus liber ― the end of a book
- extrēmī digitī ― one's fingertips
- occurring at the end (of a period of time), last
- extrēma ōrātiō ― the end of an oration
- extreme in degree
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
Noun
extrēmus m (genitive extrēmī); second declension
- rear
- end
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “extremus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “extremus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- extremus 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: extremae terrae partes
- (ambiguous) on the edge of the hill: ad extremum tumulum
- (ambiguous) at the end of the year: exeunte, extremo anno
- (ambiguous) to touch with the fingertips: extremis digitis aliquid attingere
- (ambiguous) the last stage of life, one's last days: extrema aetas
- (ambiguous) the last stage of life, one's last days: extremum tempus aetatis
- (ambiguous) to give up the ghost: extremum vitae spiritum edere
- (ambiguous) to inflict a death-blow: plagam extremam or mortiferam infligere
- (ambiguous) affairs are desperate; we are reduced to extremeties: res ad extremum casum perducta est
- (ambiguous) affairs are desperate; we are reduced to extremeties: ad extrema perventum est
- (ambiguous) to be reduced to one's last resource: ad extremum auxilium descendere
- (ambiguous) to have recourse to extreme measures: descendere ad extrema consilia (Fam. 10. 33. 4)
- (ambiguous) to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
- (ambiguous) at the end of the book: in extremo libro (Q. Fr. 2. 7. 1)
- (ambiguous) to put the finishing touch to a work: extrema manus accēdit operi (active extremam manum imponere operi)
- (ambiguous) the rearguard: agmen novissimum (extremum)
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN