opime
English
Etymology
From Latin opīmus (“fertile, plump”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈpaɪm/, /əʊˈpaɪm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈpaɪm/, /oʊˈpaɪm/
Adjective
opime
- (obsolete, rare) magnificent, rich, plenteous
- 1664, Henry More, “Part the Firſt, Book II, Chapter XV”, in A modeſt Enquiry into the Myſtery of Iniquity, 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 […] , 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 Illiad: Translation of Book I; also Passages from Virgil, London: Chapman and Hall:
- See yonder where Marcellus comes, with pride of spoils opime.
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Italian
Adjective
opime
- feminine plural of opimo
Anagrams
- empio, miope, poemi
Latin
Adjective
opīme
- 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