proxime
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin proximus. See proximate; compare proximo.
Adjective
proxime (not comparable)
- (obsolete) next; immediately preceding or following
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for proxime in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɾo.ksi.me/
Adjective
proxime (comparative plus proxime, superlative le plus proxime)
- close, proximate
Latin
Adverb
proximē
- superlative degree of prope
Noun
proxime
- vocative singular of proximus
References
- “proxime”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “proxime”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- proxime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be not far away: prope (propius, proxime) abesse
- (ambiguous) to be very near the truth: proxime ad verum accedere
- (ambiguous) to be not far away: prope (propius, proxime) abesse