intimusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁éntm̥mos (“innermost”), from *h₁én, the root of in, intus inter. Formally the superlative of interior (but lacking the positive degree) and parallel to ultimus, extimus, citimus, postumus, dextimus, sinistimus.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɪn.tɪ.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈin.ti.mus]

形容詞

intimus (superlative, feminine intima, neuter intimum, no positive form, comparative interior, adverb intimē); first/second declension

1. superlative degree of interior
   1. innermost, inmost (closest to the inside)

      tunica intima ― undershirt (literally, “closest to the body”)

      1. (of feelings) deepest
   2. (denoting a part from a bigger whole) the inmost, central or deepest part of

      ex intimō ventre ― from the deepest part of the belly

   3. most or very secret, intimate, private
   4. (of knowledge) most or very recondite, abstruse, profound

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

等位語

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

• īmus, īnfimus (“lowest part of”) / suprēmus, summus (“highest part of”)
• prīmus (“beginning of”) / extrēmus, postrēmus (“last part of”)
• medius (“middle of”)

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “intimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “intimus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to penetrate into the heart of Greece: in ipsam or intimam Graeciam penetrare
    
  • my most intimate acquaintance: homo intimus, familiarissimus mihi
    
• “intimus” on page 1046 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• intimus, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011