ultimusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

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

形容詞

ultimus (superlative, feminine ultima, neuter ultimum); first/second declension

1. superlative degree of ulter
   1. (of space) the furthest or farthest, most distant, most remote, the utmost or uttermost, extreme, last

      Synonym: postrēmus

      Antonym: primus

      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.480–481:

        “Ōceanī fīnem iuxtā sōlemque cadentem
        ultimus Aethiopum locus est, [...].”

        “Near Ocean’s end and the setting sun is the furthest place [on earth]: Ethiopia, [...].”

   2. (of time) last, final, ultimate, end

      ad ultimum ― at last, finally, at the last moment

      Antonym: primus

      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.248–249:

        “Nōs dēlūbra deum miserī, quibus ultimus esset
        ille diēs, fēstā vēlāmus fronde per urbem.”

        “We wretched [Trojans], for whom that was to be our final day, adorn the shrines of the gods with festival garlands throughout the city.”
        (Believing that the war has ended the Trojans celebrate the presence of the wooden horse as a divine blessing.)

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

反意語

• initiālis (first)
• orīginālis (first)
• proximus (next)

派生した語

参照

• “ultimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ultimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ultimus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the most distant countries, the world's end: ultimae terrae
    
  • to travel through the most remote countries: disiunctissimas ultimas terras peragrare (not permigrare)
    
  • (ambiguous) to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
    
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti