eximie

Latin

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der.

Proto-Italic *emō

Latin emō

Latin eximō

Latin -ius

Latin eximius

Latin -ē

Latin eximiē

From eximius (“special, choice, remarkable”) + -ē.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛkˈsɪ.mi.eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eɡˈziː.mi.e]

Adverb

eximiē (comparative eximius, superlative eximissimē)

1. especially, remarkably

References

• “eximie”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “eximie”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “eximie”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Etymology 2

Inflected form of eximius.

Adjective

eximie

1. vocative masculine singular of eximius