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
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...sunt et ova anserina pilleata, quae ut comessemus, ambitiosissime nobis Trimalchio petiit dicens exossatas esse gallinas. Inter haec..."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..."
