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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=1304–1308, Dante|origins=la ultimus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ul.ti.maˈmen.te/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ultimamente'''^(Wiktionary)

+ An old form is ''utimamente''.^(GDLI|21, 513)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|it|ultimo|-mente|t1=last]].^(GRADIT 2003)^(Wiktionary)^(Wikizionario)^(Devoto–Oli 2026) The adjective [[ultimo]] is a learned borrowing of [[la|ultimus|t=farthest, last]], the superlative of [[m|la|*ulter|t=beyond]], related to [[oltre]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010) The adverb suffix [[-mente]] continues the ablative [[la|mente]] of [[m|la|mēns|t=mind]], from phrases of the type [[m|la|dēvōtā mente|t=with a devout mind]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The first record is in Dante's ''Convivio'' (1304–1308), with the sense “in the end, finally, as a conclusion”.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003) Dante also uses it in the ''Purgatorio'': ''Ultimamente ci si grida: Crasso…'', “last of all the cry here is: Crassus…”.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Old Italian the word marked the last step of a story or an argument: Boccaccio writes that a man, fearing worse, ''ultimamente'' drove out the first fear with the second.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)^(GRADIT 2003) This sense is now archaic.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ The modern sense, “lately, recently”, is recorded by DELI from Francesco Redi in 1670.^(DELI 1999) The GDLI quotes it from Giovanni Morelli and then from Bernardo Tasso, Muratori, Foscolo and Leopardi, who wrote to his brother that he had written to him ''ultimamente''.^(GDLI|21, 513) Tommaseo lists it second, after the old sense.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1304–1308 – Dante uses ''ultimamente'' “in the end” in the ''Convivio''.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)

+ * 1348–1353 – Boccaccio uses the word in the ''Decameron''.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

+ * 1670 – Francesco Redi uses it for “lately”.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|lately]], [[m|en|recently]], in the last while: ''Ultimamente dormo poco.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(archaic)'' In the end, [[m|en|finally]], as a conclusion.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ultimo]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}