imus

imus

1. plural of imu

• Muis, UIMs

imus

1. inessive singular of imu

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.mus/, [ˈiːmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.mus/, [ˈiːmus]

From earlier *emmo- < *enðmo- < *enðemo-, fro Proto-Italic *enðemos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dʰ-m̥mó-s, from *h₁n̥dʰér. Superlative form of īnferus. See also īnfimus.

īmus (feminine īma, neuter īmum); first/second declension

1. superlative degree of īnferus: lowest, deepest, innermost, nethermost, the bottom of, the depths of
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.24:

     “Sed mihi vel tellūs optem prius īmā dēhīscat, [...].”

     “But first I would pray, either that deepest earth gape open for me, [...].”
     (That is, the Underworld, or land of the dead.)

First/second-declension adjective.

• īnfimus

• īmitus

• Italian: imo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

īmus

1. first-person plural present active indicative of eō

• “imus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “imus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• imus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• imus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

imus

1. beard