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Verb
sublimis
- second-person singular present subjunctive of sublimar
Ido
Pronunciation
Verb
sublimis
- past of sublimar
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From sub- (“under”) and the root of līmus (“transverse, oblique”), līmes (“line”) and līmen (“threshold”).
Adjective
sublīmis (neuter sublīme, comparative sublimior, superlative sublīmissimus, adverb sublīme or sublīmiter); third-declension two-termination adjective
- uplifted, high, lofty, exalted, sublime
- Synonyms: altus, excelsus
- Antonyms: demissus, sordidus
- elevated, raised
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
sublīmīs
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter/feminine plural of sublīmus
References
- “sublimis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sublimis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sublimis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sublimis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.