imus

imus

1. plural of imu

• Muis, UIMs

imus

1. inessive singular of imu

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.mus]

From earlier *emmo- < *enðmo- < *enðemo-, from Proto-Italic *enðemos, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰ-m̥mó-s, from *(H)n̥dʰér. Superlative form of īnferus. See also īnfimus.

īmus (superlative, feminine īma, neuter īmum); first/second declension

1. superlative degree of īnferus
   1. lowest, deepest, innermost, nethermost, the bottom of, the depths of

      Synonym: īnfimus

      Antonym: summus

      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.24:

        “Sed mihi vel tellūs optem prius īma dehīscat, [...].”

        “But first I would pray, either that deepest earth gape open for me, [...].”
        (That is, the Underworld, or land of the dead.)

   2. (denoting a part from a bigger whole) the lowest part of (e.g., the bottom of)

      Synonym: īnfimus

      Antonym: summus

      īma quercus ― the foot of an oak

      in īmā aure ― at the deepest/bottom of the ear

First/second-declension adjective.

• Italian: imo

((partitive) adjectives denoting a part from a bigger whole):

• īmus, īnfimus (“lowest part of”) / suprēmus, summus (“highest part of”)
• prīmus (“beginning of”) / ultimus, extrēmus, postrēmus (“last part of”)
• medius (“middle of”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

īmus

1. first-person plural present active indicative of eō

• “ĭmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “īmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “imus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "imus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

imus

1. beard