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imo is a Latin form of inferus, meaning “below, lower; (inferi) the dead, the underworld; (infimus, imus) lowest”.

It can also be a form of imus, “lowest, bottom of”. It is the ablative singular masculine adjective or ablative singular neuter adjective.

It can also be a form of infimus, “lowest, last; meanest, humblest”.

Found 202 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.19.1: Locus erat castrorum editus et paulatim ab imo acclivis circiter passus mille. Huc magno cursu contenderunt, ut quam minimum spatii ad se colligendos armandosque Romanis daretur, exanimatique pervenerunt.

All forms of inferus (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.