amplissime
Dictionary entries
- Entry →amplus, ampla -um, amplior -or -us, amplissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
great, large, spacious, wide, ample; distinguished, important, honorable;
voc. sg. (m.) - Entry →ample, amplius, amplissime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
in liberal manner/complimentary terms/dignified style, handsomely, impressively;
Examples
- A
Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...fuit, oratione utens "permitte," inquit "philosophorum amplissime, quoniam respondere nos tibi, quos vocas idiotas, non quimus, recitari..." - G
Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...Tiberio cum plurimis lacrimis pro contione laudato funeratoque amplissime, confestim Pandateriam et Pontias ad transferendos matris fratrisque cineres..." - G
Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...appellatus esset a senatu, quod amicus, quod munera amplissime missa; quam rem et paucis contigisse et pro magnis..." - G
Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...postea duplici stipendio, frumento, veste, cibariis militaribusque donis amplissime donavit Pompeius noctu magnis additis munitionibus reliquis diebus turres..." - T
Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Dianam, Herculem, Mercurium atque Neptunum tribus quam amplissime tum apparari poterat stratis lectis placauere. Privatim quoque id sacrum..."