infimus

From Proto-Italic *enðemos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dʰ-m̥mó-s, from *h₁n̥dʰér. Superlative form of īnferus. See also īmus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈin.fi.mus/, [ˈĩːfɪmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.fi.mus/, [ˈiɱfimus]

īnfimus (feminine īnfima, neuter īnfimum); first/second declension

1. superlative degree of īnferus

   īnfimum mare ― the bottom of the sea

First/second-declension adjective.

• īmus

• suprēmus

• īmus
• īnferior
• īnfrā

• “infimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “infimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• infimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • at the foot of the mountain: sub radicibus montis, in infimo monte, sub monte
    
  • a gentle ascent: collis leniter ab infimo acclivis (opp. leniter a summo declivis)
    
  • the position of the lower classes: condicio ac fortuna hominum infimi generis
    
  • to be influenced by, to yield to urgent (abject) entreaty: magnis (infimis) precibus moveri
    
  • from the lowest classes: infimo loco natus
    
  • high and low: summi (et) infimi (Rep. 1. 34. 53)
    
  • a degraded, servile condition: infima fortuna or condicio servorum