çekim: karşılaştırma īnsignior · üstünlük īnsignissimus
köken: From in- (“within”) + signum (“a sign, an emblem”) + -is (adjective-forming suffix) so formed because the subject qualified by this adjective has been revealed, specifically by means of a sign, to be exceptional relative to ordinary examples of its kind.
aile: īnsigne, īnsigniō, īnsigniter
, Cicero Ad Quintum Fratrem Dialogi Tres: De Oratore, Libri Tres 237
, Cicero De Oratore, Libri Tres 244
, Cicero Laelius sive De Amicitia Dialogus ...insignis virtus Scipionis...
great, excellent, outstanding, brilliant (having great, above average capacity, skill) · great, excellent, outstanding (above average in quality, importance, significance)
çekim: karşılaştırma izcilāks · üstünlük visizcilākais
eş: lielisks, teicams
köken: Originally the past participle of a verb *izcilt, from cilt (“to rise”), still attested dialectally (cf. celties “to rise” from transitive celt “to raise”). The original meaning was thus “raised, risen (above others)” > “outstanding.”
aile: izcilnieks, izcilniece, izcilība
izcils zinātnieks
izcils sportists
kādas lieliskas rakstura īpašības bija piemitušas šim izcilajam puisim!