adverb
apprīmē
apprīmē (not comparable)
Classical[apˈpriː.meː]Ecclesiastical[apˈpriː.me]
Meaning
- not comparableespecially, extremely, very, before all
Fateor, ego trifurcifer sum, tu es homo adprime probus:
c. 211 BCE, Plautus, Rudens 3.4.30–31Non iniuria; nam id arbitror
166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 60–61
apprīmē (adp-), adv., v. apprimus.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
apprīmē (ad-p-) adv.,
first of all, in the highest degree, chiefly: in vitā utile, T.: boni, N.
Origins
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
- Proto-Italic*ad
- Proto-Italic*ad-
- Latinapprīmē
Latin prīmē Latin apprīmē From ad- (intensive) + prīmē. by surface analysis, apprīmus + -ē.