ambitiosissime
Dictionary entries
- Entry →ambitiosus, ambitiosa -um, ambitiosior -or -us, ambitiosissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
ambitious, eager to please/for advancement/favor; showy; winding, twisting;
voc. sg. (m.) - Entry →ambitiose, ambitiosius, ambitiosissime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
ingratiatingly, earnestly; ambitiously, presumptuously; ostentatiously;
Examples
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SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...sunt et ova anserina pilleata, quae ut comessemus, ambitiosissime nobis Trimalchio petiit dicens exossatas esse gallinas. Inter haec..." - M
Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...Afer, cum Didio Gallo, qui provinciam ambitiosissime petierat, deinde, impetrata ea, tamquam coactus querebatur: "age" inquit "aliquid..."
