opime

English

Etymology

From Latin opīmus (“fertile, plump”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈpaɪm/, /əʊˈpaɪm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈpaɪm/, /oʊˈpaɪm/

Adjective

opime

1. (obsolete, rare) magnificent, rich, plenteous
   • 1664, Henry More, “Part the Firſt, Book II, Chapter XV”, in A modeſt Enquiry into the Myſtery of Iniquity‎^[1], London: J. Fleſher, page 425:

     That is to ſay, Thoſe great and opime Preferments and Dignities which thy ambitious and wordly minde ſo longingly hankers after.

   • 1737, François Rabelais, “Book V”, in Peter Anthony Motteux, Sir Thomas Urquhart, transl., The Works of Mr. Francois Rabelais […] ‎^[2], volume 2, Navarre Society, published 1921, page 438:

     For, shou'd you come before the Brume's abated
     Th' Opime you'd linquish for the Macerated.

   • 1875, M. P. W. Bolton, transl., Homer's Iliad: Translation of Book I; also Passages from Virgil‎^[3], London: Chapman and Hall, page 97:

     See yonder where Marcellus comes, with pride of spoils opime.

Italian

Adjective

opime

1. feminine plural of opimo

Anagrams

• empio, miope, poemi

Latin

Adjective

opīme

1. vocative masculine singular of opīmus

References

• “opime”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• opime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.