speciosissime
Dictionary entries
- Entry →speciosus, speciosa -um, speciosior -or -us, speciosissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
beautiful/handsome/good-looking; attractive/appealing; presentable/respectable;; spectacular/brilliant/impressive/splendid; showy/public; plausible, specious;
voc. sg. (m.) - Entry →speciose, speciosius, speciosissime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
attractively, gracefully; strikingly, impressively; speciously, plausibly;
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quae missa optime est hastam speciosissime contortam ferri videmus, et arcu derigentium tela quo certior manus..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...nare", licet hoc Vergilius in apibus ac Daedalo speciosissime sit usus. Metaphora enim aut vacantem locum occupare debet..." - G
de Bello Africo
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...copias cum elephantis LX productas in aciem quam speciosissime potuit instruxit ac paulo longius progressus ab suis munitionibus..."
