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Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
potissimum
- inflection of potissimus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
Adverb
potissimum (not comparable)
- chiefly, above all
c. 69 CE – 122 CE,
Suetonius,
De Vita Caesarum 1 22:
- Socero igitur generoque suffragantibus ex omni provinciarum copia Gallias potissimum elegit
- Backed therefore by his father-in-law and son-in-law, of the whole of abundance of provinces he chose Gaul above all
References
- “potissimum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers