opimo

From Latin opīmus (“fat”, “rich”).

• IPA^(key): /oˈpi.mo/
• Rhymes: -imo
• Hyphenation: o‧pì‧mo

opimo (feminine opima, masculine plural opimi, feminine plural opime) (literary)

1. fat
   • 1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 17”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 54; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:

     Ci ungemo i corpi di quel grasso opimo
     che ritroviamo all’intestina intorno,
     e de l’orride pelli ci vestimo.

     We oil our bodies with that fat grease we find around the intestines, and we wear the horrendous skins.

   • mid 1560s , “Libro primo”, in Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide, translation of Aeneis by Publius Vergilius Maro (in Classical Latin), lines 346–347; republished as L’Eneide di Virgilio‎, Florence: G. Barbera, 1892:

     Poscia d’un prato e seggio e mensa fattisi,
     Taciti prima sopra l’erba agiandosi,
     D’opima carne e di vin vecchio empiendosi,
     Quanto puon lietamente si ricreano.

     Afterwards — with a lawn as both seat and refectory — silently setting themselves on the grass, filling up on fat meat, and old wine, they restore themselves as merrily as they can.

2. (by extension) fertile, rich (with fruits or animals)
   • 1810 , “Libro XI”, in Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade, translation of Ῑ̓λιάς (Īliás, Iliad) by Homer (in Epic Greek), lines 298–301; republished as Iliade di Omero‎, 4^th edition, Milan: Società tipografica dei classici italiani, 1825:

     Ifidamante,
     D’Antenore figliuolo, un giovinetto
     D’altere forme e di gran cor, nudrito
     Nell’opima di greggi odrisia terra.

     Iphidámas Antēnorídēs ēǘs te mégas te
     hòs tráphē en Thrḗikēi eribṓlaki mētéri mḗlōn;

     Iphidamas, son of Antenor, a young one with haughty attitude and great heart, nourished in the flock-rich Odrysian land.

3. (by extension) copious, rich

• (fat): grasso, pingue
• (fertile): fecondo, fertile, fruttifero, ubertoso
• (rich): copioso, ricco

• (antonym(s) of “fat”): magro, scarno
• (antonym(s) of “fertile”): arido, improduttivo, infecondo, povero, sterile
• (antonym(s) of “rich”): magro, povero

• opimo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

opīmō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of opīmus

• “opimo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• opimo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin opīmus (“rich, fertile”).

• IPA^(key): /oˈpimo/
• Rhymes: -imo
• Syllabification: o‧pi‧mo

opimo (feminine opima, masculine plural opimos, feminine plural opimas)

1. rich, fertile, lush

   Synonyms: abundante, fértil

• “opimo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10