optime

Borrowed from Latin optimē (“very well”), in the phrase optimē disputāstī (“you have disputed very well”), formerly used in reporting results at Cambridge.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒptɪmeɪ/

optime (plural optimes)

1. (Cambridge University) A student who graduates with second class ("senior optime") or third class ("junior optime") honours in mathematics, or (loosely) in any other subject.
   • 1994, Michael J. Crowe, A History of Vector Analysis: The Evolution of the Idea of a Vectorial System, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 20:

     The winning of even a single optime was very rare. Upon winning the second optime, Hamilton “became a celebrity in the intellectual circle of Dublin; and invitations, embarrassing from their number, poured in upon him. . .” (2,I; 209)

• wrangler

• “optime”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Borrowed from Latin optimus (“great”).

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optime (plural optimes)

1. (obsolete, rare) great, optimum

• bon

• “optime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈop.ti.me/

optime

1. superlative degree of bon (“best”)

Superlative of bene; from optimus (“very good”) +‎ -ē.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔp.tɪ.meː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔp.t̪i.me]

optimē

1. (superlative degree of bene) very well; excellently
2. thoroughly
3. most opportunely, just in time

• optimās
• optimitās
• optimus

• bene

Inflected form of optimus (“very good”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔp.tɪ.mɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔp.t̪i.me]

optime

1. vocative masculine singular of optimus

• “optime”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “optime”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• optime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to deserve well at some one's hands; to do a service to..: bene, praeclare (melius, optime) mereri de aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) my dear father: pater optime or carissime, mi pater (vid. sect. XII. 10)
    
  • (ambiguous) to hope well of a person: bene, optime (meliora) sperare de aliquo (Nep. Milt. 1. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to have the good of the state at heart: bene, optime sentire de re publica
    
• Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti

From opt +‎ -ime; compare Aromanian uptimi.

• IPA^(key): /opˈti.me/

optime f (plural optimi)

1. an eighth (one of eight equal parts of a whole)

optime

1. inflection of optimar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative