optime

Meaning

Noun

A student who graduates with second class ("senior optime") or third class ("junior optime") honours in mathematics, or (loosely) in any other subject.

Origin

Borrowed from Latin optimē ("very well"), in the phrase optime disputasti ‘you have disputed very well’ (formerly used in reporting results at Cambridge).

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