infimum
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of infimum
1935–40; < Latin, noun use of neuter of infimus lowest (superlative of inferus low)
Example Sentences
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Omnis corporea creatura ... bonum est infimum, et in genere suo pulchrum quoniam forma et specie continetur.”—St.
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The imum is the lowest extremity of a part; then the infimum, the lowest part, with reference to the other parts.
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Altera pars locum infimum sortita, terra quidem appellatur, frigida et sicca multas que motiones habens, et in qua multum sane calidi inest.
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Nectarium monophyllum, concavum, pedicellatum, intra petalum infimum.
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