supremus
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier *suprezmo- < *superezemo- < *superisemo-, from Proto-Italic *superisemos. Equivalent to superus + -issimus. Same development as extrēmus and postrēmus. Compare with summus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /suˈpreː.mus/, [s̠ʊˈpreːmʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /suˈpre.mus/, [suˈprɛːmus]
Adjective
[edit]suprēmus (superlative, feminine suprēma, neuter suprēmum); first/second declension
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | suprēmus | suprēma | suprēmum | suprēmī | suprēmae | suprēma | |
| genitive | suprēmī | suprēmae | suprēmī | suprēmōrum | suprēmārum | suprēmōrum | |
| dative | suprēmō | suprēmae | suprēmō | suprēmīs | |||
| accusative | suprēmum | suprēmam | suprēmum | suprēmōs | suprēmās | suprēma | |
| ablative | suprēmō | suprēmā | suprēmō | suprēmīs | |||
| vocative | suprēme | suprēma | suprēmum | suprēmī | suprēmae | suprēma | |
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit](all borrowings)
- Catalan: suprem
- English: supreme
- French: suprême
- Italian: supremo
- Portuguese: supremo
- Romanian: suprem
- Spanish: supremo
References
[edit]- “supremus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- supremus 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)
- supremus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to depart this life: mortem (diem supremum) obire
- (ambiguous) on one's last day: supremo vitae die
- (ambiguous) to perform the last rites for a person: supremo officio in aliquem fungi
- (ambiguous) to perform the last offices of affection: supremis officiis aliquem prosequi (vid sect. VI. 11., note Prosequi...)
- (ambiguous) the last wishes of a deceased person: alicuius mortui voluntas (suprema)
- (ambiguous) to depart this life: mortem (diem supremum) obire
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN