intimately

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English intimate

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English intimately

From intimate + -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntɪmətli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: in‧ti‧mate‧ly

Adverb

intimately (comparative more intimately, superlative most intimately)

1. In an intimate manner.
   • 1980 August 9, anonymous author, “Inside Burning”, in Gay Community News, page 4:

     I have tried to find friends like me […] but have failed to form even one prolonged relationship. Only a few of them could understand how I felt and a couple of them allowed me to express my love as intimately and vigorously as I wanted to.

Translations

in an intimate manner

• Bulgarian: интимно (bg) (intimno), задушевно (bg) (zaduševno)
• Catalan: íntimament
• Dutch: intiem (nl)
• Esperanto: intime (eo)
• Finnish: läheisesti, intiimisti (fi)
• French: intimement (fr)
• Galician: intimamente (gl)
• Italian: intimamente (it)
• Polish: intymnie (pl)
• Portuguese: intimamente (pt)
• Spanish: íntimamente