infimusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈĩː.fɪ.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈiɱ.fi.mus]

形容詞

īnfimus (superlative, feminine īnfima, neuter īnfimum); first/second declension

1. superlative degree of īnferus

   Synonym: īmus

   Antonyms: summus, supērus

   1. lowest, deepest, innermost, nethermost
   2. (denoting a part from a bigger whole) the lowest part of, the bottom of, the depths of

      īnfimum mare ― the bottom of the sea

使用する際の注意点

Whereas īnfimus can be used comparatively to express the lowest of several objects referred to, īmus is used to express a whole from end to end.

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

等位語

(adjectives denoting a part from a bigger whole (partitive)):

• īmus / suprēmus, summus (“highest part of”)
• prīmus (“beginning of”) / ultimus, extrēmus, postrēmus (“last part of”)
• medius (“middle of”); intimus (“inermost part of, deepest part of”)

関連する語

• īmus
• īnferior
• īnfrā

派生した語

参照

• “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
• “infimus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (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