opimo

From Latin opīmus (“fat”, “rich”).

• IPA^(key): /oˈpi.mo/, [oˈpiːmo]
• Rhymes: -imo
• Hyphenation: o‧pì‧mo

opimo (feminine singular opima, masculine plural opimi, feminine plural opime) (literary)

1. fat
   • 1516, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland]‎, Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, Canto XVII, page 125:

     Ci ungemo i corpi di quel graſſo opimo, ¶ che ritrouiamo a l'inteſtina intorno;

     We grease our bodies with that fat lard ¶ we find around the intestines;

   • 16th century, Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide [Aeneid]‎, Florence: Leonardo Ciardetti, translation of Aeneis by Virgil, published 1827, Libro I, page 41:

     […] d'opima carne e di vin vecchio empiendosi, ¶ quanto puon lietamente si ricreano.

     […] filling up on fat meat and old wine ¶ they enjoy themselves as happily as they can.

2. (by extension) fertile, rich (with fruits or animals)
   • 1825, Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad]‎, Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, Libro XV, lines 298-301, page 233:

     […] Ifidamante, ¶ d'Anténore figliuolo, un giovinetto ¶ d'altere forme e di gran cor, nudrito ¶ nell'opima di greggi odrisia terra.

     […] Iphidamas, ¶ son of Antenor, a young one ¶ with haughty attitude and great heart, nourished ¶ in the flock-rich Odrysian land.

3. (by extension) copious, rich

• (fat): grasso, pingue
• (fertile): fecondo, fertile, fruttifero, ubertoso
• (rich): copioso, ricco

• (fat): magro, scarno
• (fertile): arido, improduttivo, infecondo, povero, sterile
• (rich): magro, povero

opīmō

1. dative masculine singular of opīmus
2. dative neuter singular of opīmus
3. ablative masculine singular of opīmus
4. ablative neuter singular of opīmus

• opimo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• opimo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Borrowed from Latin opīmus (“rich, fertile”).

• IPA^(key): /oˈpimo/

opimo (feminine singular opima, masculine plural opimos, feminine plural opimas)

1. rich, fertile, lush

• (fertile, lush): abundante, fértil

• “opimo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.