intimus

See also: Intimus and intīmus

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin intimus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.ti.mʏs/

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• Hyphenation: in‧ti‧mus

Noun

intimus m (plural intimi, no diminutive)

1. a close friend, an intimate friend

   Synonym: boezemvriend

Related terms

• intiem

Further reading

• “intimus” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈtimus/
• Rhymes: -imus
• Syllabification: in‧ti‧mus

Verb

intimus

1. conditional of intimi

Latin

Alternative forms

• intumus

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁éntm̥mos (“innermost”), from *h₁én, the root of in, intus inter. Formally the superlative of interior (but lacking the positive degree) and parallel to ultimus, extimus, citimus, postumus, dextimus, sinistimus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪn.tɪ.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈin.ti.mus]

Adjective

intimus (superlative, feminine intima, neuter intimum, no positive form, comparative interior, adverb intimē); first/second declension

1. superlative degree of interior
   1. innermost, inmost (closest to the inside)

      tunica intima ― undershirt (literally, “closest to the body”)

      1. (of feelings) deepest
   2. (denoting a part from a bigger whole) the inmost, central or deepest part of

      ex intimō ventre ― from the deepest part of the belly

   3. most or very secret, intimate, private
   4. (of knowledge) most or very recondite, abstruse, profound

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	intimus	intima	intimum		intimī	intimae	intima
genitive	intimī	intimae	intimī		intimōrum	intimārum	intimōrum
dative	intimō	intimae	intimō		intimīs
accusative	intimum	intimam	intimum		intimōs	intimās	intima
ablative	intimō	intimā	intimō		intimīs
vocative	intime	intima	intimum		intimī	intimae	intima

Coordinate terms

(adjectives denoting a part from a bigger whole (partitive)):

• īmus, īnfimus (“lowest part of”) / suprēmus, summus (“highest part of”)
• prīmus (“beginning of”) / extrēmus, postrēmus (“last part of”)
• medius (“middle of”)

Descendants

• Emilian: endma (“mattress or pillow case”)
• Friulian: líntime, lèntime (“mattress”) ⇒ intimèle
• Ligurian: èntema, lèntima (“mattress or pillow case”)
• Neapolitan: endema (“mattress or pillow case”)
• Romagnol: emda (“mattress or pillow case”)
• Venetan: íntima, èntima, ⇒ intimèla (“mattress or pillow case”)
• → Catalan: íntim
• → Dutch: intimus
• → French: intime
  • → Dutch: intiem
    • Afrikaans: intiem
    • → Indonesian: intim
  • → Romanian: intim
• → Galician: íntimo
• → Italian: intimo
• → Portuguese: íntimo
• → Spanish: íntimo

Further reading

• “intimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “intimus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to penetrate into the heart of Greece: in ipsam or intimam Graeciam penetrare
    
  • my most intimate acquaintance: homo intimus, familiarissimus mihi
    
• “intimus” on page 1046 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• intimus, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011