intimus
See also: intīmus
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin intimus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
intimus m (plural intimi)
- A close friend, an intimate friend.
- Synonym: boezemvriend
Related terms edit
Esperanto edit
Verb edit
intimus
- conditional of intimi
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁éntm̥mos (“innermost”), from *h₁én, the root of in, intus inter. Formally the superlative of interior (but lacking the positive degree) and parallel to ultimus, extimus, citimus, postumus, dextimus, sinistimus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈin.ti.mus/, [ˈɪn̪t̪ɪmʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈin.ti.mus/, [ˈin̪t̪imus]
Adjective edit
intimus (feminine intima, neuter intimum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | intimus | intima | intimum | intimī | intimae | intima | |
Genitive | intimī | intimae | intimī | intimōrum | intimārum | intimōrum | |
Dative | intimō | intimō | intimīs | ||||
Accusative | intimum | intimam | intimum | intimōs | intimās | intima | |
Ablative | intimō | intimā | intimō | intimīs | |||
Vocative | intime | intima | intimum | intimī | intimae | intima |
Descendants edit
- Emilian: endma (“mattress or pillow case”)
- Friulian: líntime, lèntime (“mattress”) ⇒ intimèle
- Ligurian: èntema, lèntima (“mattress or pillow case”)
- Neapolitan: endema (“mattress or pillow case”)
- Romagnol: emda (“mattress or pillow case”)
- Venetian: íntima, èntima, ⇒ intimèla (“mattress or pillow case”)
- → Catalan: íntim
- → Dutch: intimus
- → French: intime
- → Galician: íntimo
- → Italian: intimo
- → Portuguese: íntimo
- → Spanish: íntimo
References edit
- “intimus” on page 1046 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
Further reading edit
- “intimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “intimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- intimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to penetrate into the heart of Greece: in ipsam or intimam Graeciam penetrare
- my most intimate acquaintance: homo intimus, familiarissimus mihi
- to penetrate into the heart of Greece: in ipsam or intimam Graeciam penetrare