opimus

Latin

Etymology

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From ob- and obsolete *pīmus (“fat”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat”). Cf. with Latin pīnguis and Ancient Greek πίων (píōn, “fat”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oˈpiː.mus/, [ɔˈpiːmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈpi.mus/, [oˈpiːmus]

Adjective

opīmus (feminine opīma, neuter opīmum); first/second-declension adjective

1. fat, rich, plump, corpulent (person)
2. fertile, fruitful (land)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	opīmus	opīma	opīmum		opīmī	opīmae	opīma
Genitive	opīmī	opīmae	opīmī		opīmōrum	opīmārum	opīmōrum
Dative	opīmō		opīmō		opīmīs
Accusative	opīmum	opīmam	opīmum		opīmōs	opīmās	opīma
Ablative	opīmō	opīmā	opīmō		opīmīs
Vocative	opīme	opīma	opīmum		opīmī	opīmae	opīma

Descendants

• Italian: opimo

References

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