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extrema

extrema is a Latin form of extremus, meaning “farthest, last”.

It can also be a form of exter, “outer, foreign; (extremus) outermost, last, farthest, extreme”. It is the ablative singular feminine superlative adjective or nominative singular feminine superlative adjective.

Found 358 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.27.3: At hostes, etiam in extrema spe salutis, tantam virtutem praestiterunt ut, cum primi eorum cecidissent, proximi iacentibus insisterent atque ex eorum corporibus pugnarent,

Seneca the Younger, Agamemnon 153: Extrema primo nemo temptavit loco.

All forms of extremus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.