extremum
See also: Extremum
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin extrēmum, neuter form of extrēmus (“extreme in degree”). Doublet of extreme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪkˈstɹiːməm/
Noun
extremum (plural extrema or extremums)
- (mathematics) A point, or value that is a maximum or a minimum.
Translations
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Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ekˈstreː.mum/, [ɛkˈs̠t̪reːmʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈstre.mum/, [ekˈst̪rɛːmum]
Adjective
extrēmum
- inflection of extrēmus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- “extremum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- extremum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) on the edge of the hill: ad extremum tumulum
- (ambiguous) at the end of the year: exeunte, extremo anno
- (ambiguous) to touch with the fingertips: extremis digitis aliquid attingere
- (ambiguous) the last stage of life, one's last days: extrema aetas
- (ambiguous) the last stage of life, one's last days: extremum tempus aetatis
- (ambiguous) to give up the ghost: extremum vitae spiritum edere
- (ambiguous) affairs are desperate; we are reduced to extremeties: res ad extremum casum perducta est
- (ambiguous) affairs are desperate; we are reduced to extremeties: ad extrema perventum est
- (ambiguous) to be reduced to one's last resource: ad extremum auxilium descendere
- (ambiguous) to have recourse to extreme measures: descendere ad extrema consilia (Fam. 10. 33. 4)
- (ambiguous) to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
- (ambiguous) at the end of the book: in extremo libro (Q. Fr. 2. 7. 1)
- (ambiguous) to put the finishing touch to a work: extrema manus accēdit operi (active extremam manum imponere operi)
- (ambiguous) the rearguard: agmen novissimum (extremum)
- (ambiguous) on the edge of the hill: ad extremum tumulum
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