infimus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *enðemos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dʰ-m̥mó-s, from *h₁n̥dʰér. Superlative form of īnferus. See also īmus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈin.fi.mus/, [ˈĩːfɪmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.fi.mus/, [ˈiɱfimus]

Adjective

īnfimus (superlative, feminine īnfima, neuter īnfimum); first/second declension

1. superlative degree of īnferus

   īnfimum mare ― the bottom of the sea

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	īnfimus	īnfima	īnfimum		īnfimī	īnfimae	īnfima
genitive	īnfimī	īnfimae	īnfimī		īnfimōrum	īnfimārum	īnfimōrum
dative	īnfimō	īnfimae	īnfimō		īnfimīs
accusative	īnfimum	īnfimam	īnfimum		īnfimōs	īnfimās	īnfima
ablative	īnfimō	īnfimā	īnfimō		īnfimīs
vocative	īnfime	īnfima	īnfimum		īnfimī	īnfimae	īnfima

Synonyms

• īmus

Antonyms

• suprēmus

Related terms

• īmus
• īnferior
• īnfrā

Descendants

• Catalan: ínfim
• French: infime
• Italian: infimo
• Portuguese: ínfimo
• Romanian: infim
• Spanish: ínfimo

References

• “infimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “infimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• infimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • at the foot of the mountain: sub radicibus montis, in infimo monte, sub monte
    
  • a gentle ascent: collis leniter ab infimo acclivis (opp. leniter a summo declivis)
    
  • the position of the lower classes: condicio ac fortuna hominum infimi generis
    
  • to be influenced by, to yield to urgent (abject) entreaty: magnis (infimis) precibus moveri
    
  • from the lowest classes: infimo loco natus
    
  • high and low: summi (et) infimi (Rep. 1. 34. 53)
    
  • a degraded, servile condition: infima fortuna or condicio servorum