intime
English
Etymology
From Latin intimus (“innermost”) perhaps via French intime. Compare intimate (adjective).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪntɪm/
Adjective
intime (comparative more intime, superlative most intime)
- (obsolete) inward; internal; intimate
- a. 1665, Sir Kenelm Digby, Of bodies and of mans soul to discover the immortality:
- As to the composition or dissolution of mixed bodies, which is the chief work of elements, and requires an intime application of the agents, water hath the principality and excess over earth.
- 1988 April 9, Gordon Gottlieb, “The Urban Gay Camp and Croon”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
- What is it about gay men that they're so often linked with musical revue in a cabaret milieu? Is it the intimate ambience — more intime, more revealing — than larger stage productions? Is there more room for specialized acts that need not draw a larger (read straighter) crowd?
References
“intime”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Esperanto
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inˈtime/
- Rhymes: -ime
- Hyphenation: in‧ti‧me
Adverb
intime
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin intimus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.tim/
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Adjective
intime (plural intimes)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “intime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
intime
- inflection of intim:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
intime
- feminine plural of intimo
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
intime
- vocative masculine singular of intimus
References
- “intime”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “intime”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- intime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
intime
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
intime
Portuguese
Verb
intime
- inflection of intimar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
intime
- inflection of intimar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative