Etymograph

English

ultime

Ultime comes from French ultime ‘ultimate’, from Latin ultimus ‘the furthest or farthest, most distant, most…’, and ultimately from Proto-Italic *oltm̥mos ‘last’.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*oltm̥mos‘last’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEultimus‘the furthest or farthest, most distant, most remote, the utmost or uttermost, extreme’
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentultime‘ultimate’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1627same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*oltm̥mos‘last’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEultimus‘the furthest or farthest, most distant, most remote, the utmost or uttermost, extreme’
  3. Frenchc. 1600–presentultime‘ultimate’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1627same form

Earliest quotation: 1627, (please specify the page, or |century=I to X): “the true and ultime operations of Heat”.

Every English word from Proto-Italic *oltm̥mos

Today it means

adj Ultimate; final.

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