timidissime
Dictionary entries
- Entry →timidus, timida -um, timidior -or -us, timidissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
timid; cowardly; fearful, apprehensive; without courage; afraid to;
voc. sg. (m.) - Entry →timide, timidius, timidissime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
timidly, fearfully, apprehensively, nervously; cautiously, with hesitation;
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...scrutatur. Subducebat Giton ab ictu corpus, et reducto timidissime spiritu ipsos sciniphes ore tangebat. <. . .> Eumolpus autem, quia effractum..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...ignorata quaedam aut defuisse testes aut, quod timidissime et si nihil aliud plane fuerit dicendum est, patronos..."Metamorphoses V
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...quem voce rogabat, respicere audenti 'quod' ait, 'timidissime Phineu, et possum tribuisse et magnum est munus inerti,++ pone..."
