intimus

== Dutch == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin intimus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɪn.ti.mʏs/ Hyphenation: in‧ti‧mus === Noun === intimus m (plural intimi, no diminutive) 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 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 superlative degree of interior innermost, inmost (closest to the inside) tunica intima ― undershirt (literally, “closest to the body”) the inmost or central part of (of feelings) deepest most or very secret, intimate, private (of knowledge) most or very recondite, abstruse, profound ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== === References === === 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. “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