# optime
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɒptɪmeɪ/

### Noun

optime (plural optimes)
* (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)

### See also

* wrangler

### Further reading

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

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin optimus (“great”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

optime (plural optimes)
* (obsolete, rare) great, optimum

#### Related terms

* bon

### Further reading

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

## Interlingua
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈop.ti.me/

### Adjective

optime
* (superlative degree of bon) best

## Latin
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈop.ti.meː/, [ˈɔpt̪ɪmeː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈop.ti.me/, [ˈɔpt̪ime]

#### Adverb

optimē
* (superlative degree of bene) very well; excellently
* thoroughly
* most opportunely, just in time

##### Related terms

* optimās
* optimitās
* optimus

#### See also

* bene

### Etymology 2

Inflected form of optimus (“very good”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈop.ti.me/, [ˈɔpt̪ɪmɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈop.ti.me/, [ˈɔpt̪ime]

#### Adjective

optime
* vocative masculine singular of optimus

### References

* “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, 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

## Romanian
### Etymology

From opt +‎ -ime; compare Aromanian uptimi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /opˈti.me/

### Noun

optime f (plural optimi)
* an eighth (one of eight equal parts of a whole)

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Verb

optime
* inflection of optimar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative