potissimum

Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

potissimum

  1. inflection of potissimus:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular

Adverb

potissimum (not comparable)

  1. chiefly, above all
    • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum 1 22:
      Socero igitur generoque suffragantibus ex omni provinciarum copia Gallias potissimum elegit
      Backed therefore by his father-in-law and son-in-law, of the whole of abundance of provinces he chose Gaul above all

References

  • “potissimum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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