altissimus

== Latin == === Etymology === altus +‎ -issimus === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aɫˈtɪs.sɪ.mʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [alˈtis.si.mus] === Adjective === altissimus (superlative, feminine altissima, neuter altissimum); first/second declension superlative degree of altus ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== Italian: altissimo Ligurian: âtìscimo Spanish: altísimo === References === "altissimus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “altissimus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.