optimus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === optumus === Etymology === Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi (“at, near; on”) (whence also ob) + superlative suffix *-tm̥mos. Less likely from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep- (“to work, toil; ability, force”), whence also ops and opus. Displaced bonissimus as the superlative of bonus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔp.tɪ.mʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔp.ti.mus] === Adjective === optimus (superlative, feminine optima, neuter optimum); first/second declension superlative degree of bonus; best ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Antonyms ==== pessimus ==== Derived terms ==== optimas optimē ==== Related terms ==== bonus melior optō optiō ==== Descendants ==== === References === “bonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “optimus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ob”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 421