apprime

• adprīmē

From ad- (intensive) +‎ prīmē, by surface analysis, apprīmus +‎ -ē.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [apˈpriː.meː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [apˈpriː.me]

apprīmē (not comparable) (chiefly pre-classical)

1. especially, extremely, very, before all

   Synonyms: maximē, in prīmīs, nimium

   • c. 211 BCE, Plautus, Rudens 3.4.30–31:

     Fateor, ego trifurcifer sum, tu es homo adprime probus:
     numqui minus hasce esse oportet liberas?

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   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 60–61:

     Non iniuria; nam id arbitror
     adprime in vita esse utile, ut nequid nimis.

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   • 161 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Eunuchus 951–952:

     dicam: virginem istam, Thaidi hodie quae dono datast,
     scis eam hinc civem esse? et fratrem ei(u)s [esse] adprime nobilem?

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   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Agricultural Topics 3.2.17:

     Nonne item L. Abucius, homo, ut scitis, apprime doctus, cuius Luciliano charactere sunt libelli, dicebat in Albano fundum suum pastionibus semper vinci a villa?

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   • c. 110 BCE – c. 25 BCE, Cornelius Nepos, On the Latin Historians II. Atticus 13.3
   • 2nd century, Apuleius, On the God of Socrates 17:

     Igitur mirum, si Socrates, vir adprime perfectus et Apollinis quoque testimonio sapiens, hunc deum suum cognovit et coluit,

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   • 2nd century, Apuleius, On the God of Socrates 20:

     Quod si cuivis potest evenire facultas contemplandi divinam effigiem, cur non adprime potuerit Socrati optingere, quem cuivis amplissimo numini sapientiae dignitas coaequarat?

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Used before an adjective, post-classically also along verbs.

• “apprime”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “apprime”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “apprime”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

apprime

1. before

• apprisse