intimus

See also: intīmus

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin intimus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɪn.ti.mʏs/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: in‧ti‧mus

Noun

intimus m (plural intimi)

  1. A close friend, an intimate friend.
    Synonym: boezemvriend

Esperanto

Verb

intimus

  1. conditional of intimi

Latin

Alternative forms

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

Adjective

intimus (feminine intima, neuter intimum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (superlative degree of interior)
    1. innermost, inmost (closest to the inside)
      tunica intima ― undershirt (literally, “closest to the body”)
      1. the inmost or central part of
      2. (of feelings) deepest
    2. most or very secret, intimate, private
    3. (of knowledge) most or very recondite, abstruse, profound

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative intimus intima intimum intimī intimae intima
Genitive intimī intimae intimī intimōrum intimārum intimōrum
Dative intimō intimō intimīs
Accusative intimum intimam intimum intimōs intimās intima
Ablative intimō intimā intimō intimīs
Vocative intime intima intimum intimī intimae intima

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”)
  • Venetian: íntima, èntima, ⇒ intimèla (“mattress or pillow case”)
  • → Catalan: íntim
  • → Dutch: intimus
  • → French: intime
  • → Galician: íntimo
  • → Italian: intimo
  • → Portuguese: íntimo
  • → Spanish: íntimo

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, 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
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