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optime

optime is a Latin form of bonus, meaning “good”.

It can also be a form of optume, “(optime) best, very well; excellently”. It is the adverb or adjective or vocative singular neuter adjective.

Found 482 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.45.1: Multa a Caesare in eam sententiam dicta sunt quare negotio desistere non posset: neque suam neque populi Romani consuetudinem pati ut optime meritos socios desereret, neque se iudicare Galliam potius esse Ariovisti quam populi Romani.

Cicero, De Republica 1.59: … iter offendisset ac iusserat, A te infelicem, inquit vilico, quem necassem iam verberibus, nisi iratus essem. Optime, inquit Scipio.

Plautus, Bacchides 5.2.1170: Senex óptime quantumst ín terra, sine me hóc exorare ábs te,

All forms of bonus (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.