English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin proximus. See proximate; compare proximo.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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proxime (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Next; following; immediately preceding or following.
    proxime causes
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Interlingua

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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proxime (comparative plus proxime, superlative le plus proxime)

  1. close, proximate

Latin

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Adverb

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proximē

  1. superlative degree of prope

Noun

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proxime

  1. vocative singular of proximus

References

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  • proxime”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • proxime”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • proxime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to be not far away: prope (propius, proxime) abesse
    • (ambiguous) to be very near the truth: proxime ad verum accedere