ultimus

< Latin

• IPA^(key): /ˈulti(ː)mus/, [ˈul̪t̪i(ː)mus̠]
• Rhymes: -ultimus
• Syllabification^(key): ul‧ti‧mus

ultimus

1. (academia) In an academic promotion ceremony, the person who graduates with the second best grades and receives his/her diploma last.

• priimus

Superlative of ulter, from Proto-Italic *oltm̥mos, whence also Oscan 𐌞𐌋𐌕𐌉𐌖𐌌𐌀𐌌 (últiumam, acc sg fem).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈul.ti.mus/, [ˈʊɫ̪t̪ɪmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈul.ti.mus/, [ˈul̪t̪imus]

ultimus (feminine ultima, neuter ultimum); first/second declension

1. superlative degree of ulter
   1. (of space) the furthest or farthest, most distant, most remote, the utmost or uttermost, extreme, last
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.480–481:

        “Ōceanī fīnem iuxtā sōlemque cadentem
        ultimus Aethiopum locus est, [...].”

        “Near Ocean’s end and the setting sun is the furthest place [on earth]: Ethiopia, [...].”

   2. (of time) last, final, ultimate, end

      ad ultimum ― at last, finally, at the last moment

      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.248–249:

        “Nōs dēlūbra deum miserī, quibus ultimus esset
        ille diēs, fēstā vēlāmus fronde per urbem.”

        “We wretched [Trojans], for whom that was to be our final day, adorn the shrines of the gods with festival garlands throughout the city.”
        (Believing that the war has ended the Trojans celebrate the presence of the wooden horse as a divine blessing.)

First/second-declension adjective.

• initiālis (first)
• orīginālis (first)
• proximus (next)

• “ultimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ultimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ultimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the most distant countries, the world's end: ultimae terrae
    
  • to travel through the most remote countries: disiunctissimas ultimas terras peragrare (not permigrare)
    
  • (ambiguous) to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
    
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti