supremus

• superrumus

From earlier *suprezmo- < *superezemo- < *superisemo-, from Proto-Italic *superisemos. Equivalent to superus +‎ -issimus. Same development as extrēmus and postrēmus. Compare with summus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /suˈpreː.mus/, [s̠ʊˈpreːmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /suˈpre.mus/, [suˈprɛːmus]

suprēmus (feminine suprēma, neuter suprēmum); first/second declension

1. superlative degree of superus

First/second-declension adjective.

• īnfimus

• suprēmitās

(all borrowings)

• Catalan: suprem
• English: supreme
• French: suprême
• Italian: supremo
• Portuguese: supremo
• Romanian: suprem
• Spanish: supremo

• “supremus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• supremus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• supremus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to depart this life: mortem (diem supremum) obire
    
  • (ambiguous) on one's last day: supremo vitae die
    
  • (ambiguous) to perform the last rites for a person: supremo officio in aliquem fungi
    
  • (ambiguous) to perform the last offices of affection: supremis officiis aliquem prosequi (vid sect. VI. 11., note Prosequi...)
    
  • (ambiguous) the last wishes of a deceased person: alicuius mortui voluntas (suprema)
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN