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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin proximus. See proximate; compare proximo.
Pronunciation
Adjective
proxime (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Next; following; immediately preceding or following.
proxime causes
References
Interlingua
Pronunciation
Adjective
proxime (comparative plus proxime, superlative le plus proxime)
- close, proximate
Latin
Adverb
proximē
- superlative degree of prope (“nearest; just before, most recently”)
Noun
proxime
- vocative singular of proximus
References
- “proxime”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “proxime”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- proxime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be not far away: prope (propius, proxime) abesse
- (ambiguous) to be very near the truth: proxime ad verum accedere