-issimo
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Contents |
[edit] Interlingua
[edit] Suffix
-issimo
- Added to an adverb, this suffix is an intensifier which adds a qualifier of "extremely" or "remarkably."[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Interlingua Course for Beginners by Thomas Breinstrup
[edit] Italian
[edit] Etymology
Latin -issimus
[edit] Suffix
-issimo
- Added to adjectives to form absolute superlatives.
- buonissimo - as good as possible, extremely good
- Added to the stem of verbs ending in -ire to form the first-person plural imperfect subjunctive tense.
- salissimo - that we be raised, gone up, etc; that we have risen, gone up, etc
