extremum

From Latin extremus

extremum (plural extrema or extremums)

1. (mathematics) a point, or value, which is a maximum or a minimum

• maximum
• minimum

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ekˈstreː.mum/, [ɛkˈstreː.mũ]

extrēmum

1. nominative neuter singular of extrēmus
2. accusative masculine singular of extrēmus
3. accusative neuter singular of extrēmus
4. vocative neuter singular of extrēmus

extrēmum

1. accusative singular of extrēmus

• extremum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• extremum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) on the edge of the hill: ad extremum tumulum
    
  • (ambiguous) at the end of the year: exeunte, extremo anno
    
  • (ambiguous) to touch with the fingertips: extremis digitis aliquid attingere
    
  • (ambiguous) the last stage of life, one's last days: extrema aetas
    
  • (ambiguous) the last stage of life, one's last days: extremum tempus aetatis
    
  • (ambiguous) to give up the ghost: extremum vitae spiritum edere
    
  • (ambiguous) affairs are desperate; we are reduced to extremeties: res ad extremum casum perducta est
    
  • (ambiguous) affairs are desperate; we are reduced to extremeties: ad extrema perventum est
    
  • (ambiguous) to be reduced to one's last resource: ad extremum auxilium descendere
    
  • (ambiguous) to have recourse to extreme measures: descendere ad extrema consilia (Fam. 10. 33. 4)
    
  • (ambiguous) to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
    
  • (ambiguous) at the end of the book: in extremo libro (Q. Fr. 2. 7. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to put the finishing touch to a work: extrema manus accēdit operi (active extremam manum imponere operi)
    
  • (ambiguous) the rearguard: agmen novissimum (extremum)