festivissime
Dictionary entries
- Entry →festivus, festiva -um, festivior -or -us, festivissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
feast/festive (day); excellent/fine; jovial, genial; lively (speech), witty;
voc. sg. (m.) - Entry →festive, festivius, festivissime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
festively, with feasting; delightfully, neatly; amusingly, humorously, wittily;
Examples
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...Orestes vel de insania, Olympiadem Philippi uxorem festivissime rescripsisse legimus Alexandro filio. II. Nam cum is ad matrem..."Liber IX
Aulus Gellius
"...quidnam existimaret, percontati sunt. XI. Atque ibi Iulianus festivissime: "nolite quaerere," inquit "quid sentiam; adulescens hic sine controversia..."
