extremum

See also: Extremum

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin extremus

Noun

extremum (plural extrema or extremums)

1. (mathematics) a point, or value, which is a maximum or a minimum

Hyponyms

• maximum
• minimum

Translations

mathematics

• Finnish: ääriarvo
• German: Extremum (de) n
• Greek: ακρότατο (el) n (akrótato)
• Italian: estremo (it) n
• Persian: اکسترمم (ekstremom)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: ekstremum (pl) n
• Portuguese: extremo (pt) m
• Russian: экстре́мум (ru) m (ekstrɛ́mum)
• Swedish: extremvärde (sv) n (extreme value), extrempunkt (sv) c (point where an extreme value is obtained)
• Turkish: ekstremum, ekstremum nokta

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ekˈstreː.mum/, [ɛkˈs̠t̪reːmʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈstre.mum/, [ekˈst̪rɛːmum]

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) extrēmum

1. nominative neuter singular of extrēmus
2. accusative masculine singular of extrēmus
3. accusative neuter singular of extrēmus
4. vocative neuter singular of extrēmus

Noun

(deprecated template usage) extrēmum

1. accusative singular of extrēmus

References

• “extremum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• extremum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) on the edge of the hill: ad extremum tumulum
    
  • (ambiguous) at the end of the year: exeunte, extremo anno
    
  • (ambiguous) to touch with the fingertips: extremis digitis aliquid attingere
    
  • (ambiguous) the last stage of life, one's last days: extrema aetas
    
  • (ambiguous) the last stage of life, one's last days: extremum tempus aetatis
    
  • (ambiguous) to give up the ghost: extremum vitae spiritum edere
    
  • (ambiguous) affairs are desperate; we are reduced to extremeties: res ad extremum casum perducta est
    
  • (ambiguous) affairs are desperate; we are reduced to extremeties: ad extrema perventum est
    
  • (ambiguous) to be reduced to one's last resource: ad extremum auxilium descendere
    
  • (ambiguous) to have recourse to extreme measures: descendere ad extrema consilia (Fam. 10. 33. 4)
    
  • (ambiguous) to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
    
  • (ambiguous) at the end of the book: in extremo libro (Q. Fr. 2. 7. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to put the finishing touch to a work: extrema manus accēdit operi (active extremam manum imponere operi)
    
  • (ambiguous) the rearguard: agmen novissimum (extremum)