extremum

See also: Extremum

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin extrēmum, neuter form of extrēmus (“extreme in degree”). Doublet of extreme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈstɹiːməm/

Noun

extremum (plural extrema or extremums)

1. (mathematics) A point, or value that is a maximum or a minimum.

   Hyponyms: maximum, minimum

Translations

mathematics

• Bulgarian: екстре́мум m (ekstrémum)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 極值／极值 (zh) (jízhí)

• Finnish: ääriarvo (fi)
• German: Extremum (de) n
• Greek: ακρότατο (el) n (akrótato)
• Italian: estremo (it) n
• Kazakh: экстремум (ékstremum)
• Persian: اکسترمم (ekstremom)
• Polish: ekstremum (pl) n
• Portuguese: extremo (pt) m
• Romanian: extrem (ro) n
• Russian: экстре́мум (ru) m (ekstrɛ́mum)
• Swedish: extremvärde (sv) n (extreme value), extrempunkt (sv) c (point where an extreme value is obtained)
• Turkish: ekstremum, ekstremum nokta

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.stʁɛ.mɔm/ ~ /ɛk.stʁe.mɔm/

Noun

extremum m (plural extremums)

1. extremum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ekˈstreː.mum/, [ɛkˈs̠t̪reːmʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈstre.mum/, [ekˈst̪rɛːmum]

Adjective

extrēmum

1. inflection of extrēmus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Noun

extrēmum m

1. accusative singular of extrēmus

References

• “extremum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• extremum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) on the edge of the hill: ad extremum tumulum
    
  • (ambiguous) at the end of the year: exeunte, extremo anno
    
  • (ambiguous) to touch with the fingertips: extremis digitis aliquid attingere
    
  • (ambiguous) the last stage of life, one's last days: extrema aetas
    
  • (ambiguous) the last stage of life, one's last days: extremum tempus aetatis
    
  • (ambiguous) to give up the ghost: extremum vitae spiritum edere
    
  • (ambiguous) affairs are desperate; we are reduced to extremeties: res ad extremum casum perducta est
    
  • (ambiguous) affairs are desperate; we are reduced to extremeties: ad extrema perventum est
    
  • (ambiguous) to be reduced to one's last resource: ad extremum auxilium descendere
    
  • (ambiguous) to have recourse to extreme measures: descendere ad extrema consilia (Fam. 10. 33. 4)
    
  • (ambiguous) to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
    
  • (ambiguous) at the end of the book: in extremo libro (Q. Fr. 2. 7. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to put the finishing touch to a work: extrema manus accēdit operi (active extremam manum imponere operi)
    
  • (ambiguous) the rearguard: agmen novissimum (extremum)