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infimus
infimus
Latin
Adjective
īnfimus (superlative of īnferus)
Inflection
First/second declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
nominative | īnfimus | īnfima | īnfimum | īnfimī | īnfimae | īnfima | |
genitive | īnfimī | īnfimae | īnfimī | īnfimōrum | īnfimārum | īnfimōrum | |
dative | īnfimō | īnfimō | īnfimīs | ||||
accusative | īnfimum | īnfimam | īnfimum | īnfimōs | īnfimās | īnfima | |
ablative | īnfimō | īnfimā | īnfimō | īnfimīs | |||
vocative | īnfime | īnfima | īnfimum | īnfimī | īnfimae | īnfima |
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Related terms
Descendants
- Italian: infimo
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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “infimus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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
- at the foot of the mountain: sub radicibus montis, in infimo monte, sub monte