Etymology

optime

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Today it means: A student who graduates with second class ("senior optime") or third class ("junior optime") honours in mathematics, or (loosely) in any other subject. Full definition →

Latin optimē
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromoptimē“very well”
  2. English todayoptime

Borrowed from Latin optimē (“very well”), in the phrase optimē disputāstī (“you have disputed very well”), formerly used in reporting results at Cambridge.

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