intimate

intimate · adjective¹

1. Latin · borrowed fromintimātus
2. English todayintimate

Borrowed from Latin intimātus, the perfect passive participle of intimō (“to put or bring into, to impress, to make familiar”) (see -ate (adjective forming suffix)), from intimus (“inmost, innermost, most intimate”), superlative of intus (“within”), from in (“in”); see interior.

intimate · noun²

From a substantivization of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

intimate · verb³

1. Latin · derived fromintimātus
2. English todayintimate

From Latin intimātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Cognate with French intimer.