examussim
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From amussis (“carpenter's rule”).
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ek.saˈmus.sim/, [ɛks̠äˈmʊs̠ːɪ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ek.saˈmus.sim/, [eɡzäˈmusːim]
Adverb
[edit]examussim (comparative examussius, superlative examussissimē)
- according to the carpenter's rule, exactly, precisely, perfectly
- c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.30:
- Utque fallaciae reliqua convenirent, ceram in modum prosectarum formatam aurium ei adplicant examussim nasoque ipsius similem comparant.
- And so that their deceits might agree with the rest, they apply to him wax formed exactly in the manner of cut-off ears, and prepare a nose similar to his own.
- Utque fallaciae reliqua convenirent, ceram in modum prosectarum formatam aurium ei adplicant examussim nasoque ipsius similem comparant.
- 1723, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, De Structura Diaphragmatis (On the Structure of the Diaphragm), Philosophical transactions, The Royal Society, v. 32, no. 379, p. 404:
- Ut autem eorum omnium quae modo narravi, testem haberem ocularem; microscopium istud, cui dictas Diaphragmatis particulas applicaveram, Chirurgo meo tradidi; qui dicta mea cum iis quae videbat, examussim convenire respondit.
- So that, however, of all those things which I have presently related, I might have an optical witness, I passed to my Surgeon the very microscope to which I had applied the stated particles of the Diaphragm, who replied that my statements exactly agreed with the things he was seeing.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “examussim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- examussim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.