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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin intimus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪn.ti.mʏs/
- Hyphenation: in‧ti‧mus
Noun
intimus m (plural intimi)
- A close friend, an intimate friend.
- Synonym: boezemvriend
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Verb
intimus
- conditional of intimi
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁éntm̥mos (“innermost”), from *h₁én, the root of in, intus inter. Formally the superlative of interior (but lacking the positive degree) and parallel to ultimus, extimus, citimus, postumus, dextimus, sinistimus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
intimus (feminine intima, neuter intimum); first/second-declension adjective
- (superlative degree of interior)
- innermost, inmost (closest to the inside)
- tunica intima ― undershirt (literally, “closest to the body”)
- the inmost or central part of
- (of feelings) deepest
- most or very secret, intimate, private
- (of knowledge) most or very recondite, abstruse, profound
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “intimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “intimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- intimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to penetrate into the heart of Greece: in ipsam or intimam Graeciam penetrare
- my most intimate acquaintance: homo intimus, familiarissimus mihi