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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin optimē (“very well”), in the phrase optimē disputāstī (“you have disputed very well”), formerly used in reporting results at Cambridge.
Pronunciation
Noun
optime (plural optimes)
- (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.
1994, Michael J. Crowe, A History of Vector Analysis: The Evolution of the Idea of a Vectorial System, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 20:The winning of even a single optime was very rare. Upon winning the second optime, Hamilton “became a celebrity in the intellectual circle of Dublin; and invitations, embarrassing from their number, poured in upon him. . .” (2,I; 209)
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Further reading
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin optimus (“great”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
optime (plural optimes)
- (obsolete, rare) great, optimum
Further reading
Interlingua
Pronunciation
Adjective
optime
- (superlative degree of bon) best
Latin
Etymology 1
Superlative of bene; from optimus (“very good”) + -ē.
Pronunciation
Adverb
optimē
- (superlative degree of bene) very well; excellently
- thoroughly
- most opportunely, just in time
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Etymology 2
Inflected form of optimus (“very good”).
Pronunciation
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
- optime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to deserve well at some one's hands; to do a service to..: bene, praeclare (melius, optime) mereri de aliquo
- (ambiguous) my dear father: pater optime or carissime, mi pater (vid. sect. XII. 10)
- (ambiguous) to hope well of a person: bene, optime (meliora) sperare de aliquo (Nep. Milt. 1. 1)
- (ambiguous) to have the good of the state at heart: bene, optime sentire de re publica
- Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti
Romanian
Etymology
From opt + -ime; compare Aromanian uptimi.
Pronunciation
Noun
optime f (plural optimi)
- an eighth (one of eight equal parts of a whole)
Declension
Spanish
Verb
optime
- inflection of optimar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative