opime

English

Etymology

From Latin opīmus (fertile, plump).

Pronunciation

Adjective

opime

  1. (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 Iliad: Translation of Book I; also Passages from Virgil, London: Chapman and Hall, page 97:
      See yonder where Marcellus comes, with pride of spoils opime.

Italian

Adjective

opime

  1. feminine plural of opimo

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

opīme

  1. 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.
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