From earlier*extrezmo- <*exterezemo- <*exterisemo-, fromProto-Italic*eksterisemos. Equivalent toexter +‎-issimus. Same development aspostrēmus andsuprēmus. Compare withextimus.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ekˈstreː.mus/,[ɛkˈs̠t̪reːmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ekˈstre.mus/,[ekˈst̪rɛːmus]

extrēmus (superlative,feminineextrēma,neuterextrēmum);first/second declension

1. superlative degree ofexter
   1. situated at the end,edge, ortip

      extrēmus liber ―the end of a book

      extrēmī digitī ―one's fingertips

   2. occurring at the end (of a period of time),last

      extrēma ōrātiō ―the end of an oration

   3. extreme in degree

First/second-declension adjective.

• extrēmitās

• → Catalan:extrem
• → English:extreme
• → Middle French:extreme
  • French:extrême
    • → Romanian:extrem
• → German:extrem
• → Galician:extremo
• → Italian:estremo,stremo
• → Portuguese:extremo
• → Spanish:extremo
• → Swedish:extrem

extrēmus m (genitiveextrēmī);second declension

1. rear
2. end

Second-declension noun.

• → Catalan:extrem
• → English:extreme
• → Middle French:extreme
  • French:extrême
• → Galician:estremo,extremo
• → Italian:estremo,stremo
• → Piedmontese:estrem
• → Portuguese:extremo
• → Spanish:extremo

• “extremus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “extremus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• extremus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • the most distant countries, the world's end:extremae terrae partes
    
  • (ambiguous) on the edge of the hill:ad extremum tumulum
    
  • (ambiguous) at the end of the year:exeunte, extremo anno
    
  • (ambiguous) to touch with the fingertips:extremis digitis aliquid attingere
    
  • (ambiguous) the last stage of life, one's last days:extrema aetas
    
  • (ambiguous) the last stage of life, one's last days:extremum tempus aetatis
    
  • (ambiguous) to give up the ghost:extremum vitae spiritum edere
    
  • (ambiguous) to inflict a death-blow:plagam extremam ormortiferam infligere
    
  • (ambiguous) affairs are desperate; we are reduced to extremeties:res ad extremum casum perducta est
    
  • (ambiguous) affairs are desperate; we are reduced to extremeties:ad extrema perventum est
    
  • (ambiguous) to be reduced to one's last resource:ad extremum auxilium descendere
    
  • (ambiguous) to have recourse to extreme measures:descendere ad extrema consilia (Fam. 10. 33. 4)
    
  • (ambiguous) to go back to the remote ages:repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
    
  • (ambiguous) at the end of the book:in extremo libro (Q. Fr. 2. 7. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to put the finishing touch to a work:extrema manus accēdit operi (activeextremam manum imponere operi)
    
  • (ambiguous) the rearguard:agmen novissimum (extremum)
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995)New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press,→ISBN

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