carissimus
Latin
Etymology
Adjective
cārissimus (feminine cārissima, neuter cārissimum, positive cārus); first/second declension
- superlative degree of carus (“dearest, most or very beloved”)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | cārissimus | cārissima | cārissimum | cārissimī | cārissimae | cārissima | |
| Genitive | cārissimī | cārissimae | cārissimī | cārissimōrum | cārissimārum | cārissimōrum | |
| Dative | cārissimō | cārissimō | cārissimīs | ||||
| Accusative | cārissimum | cārissimam | cārissimum | cārissimōs | cārissimās | cārissima | |
| Ablative | cārissimō | cārissimā | cārissimō | cārissimīs | |||
| Vocative | cārissime | cārissima | cārissimum | cārissimī | cārissimae | cārissima | |
References
- carissimus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- carissimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- my dear father: pater optime or carissime, mi pater (vid. sect. XII. 10)
- my dear father: pater optime or carissime, mi pater (vid. sect. XII. 10)