Noun: altaltissimo
| Singular | altaltissimo |
| Plural | altaltissimos |
Sample Sentences
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Then one shall propose (in a speech, curt Tuscan, / Sober, expurgate, spare of an "issimo,") / Ending our half-told tale of Cambuscan, / Turning the Bell-tower's altaltissimo. [1855, Robert Browning, “Old Pictures in Florence”, in Men and Women, volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, page 47:]
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Gordon, too, carried plenty in his hands, but principally he went for his heart's sake, and that will take a man to altaltissimo. [1912, W[illiam] H[enry] Williamson, The Stolen Bride, Boston, M.A.: Dana Estes & Company, page 103:]
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Beatrice Davis's office, a mere attic above Angus and Robertson's bookshop at 89 Castlereagh Street, is at the altaltissimo of a perilous steep of strait wooden stairs. [1975, Hal Porter, The Extra, Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 87:]
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Persons born under this number always rise high in their respective professions. To achieve summum bonum, the highest altaltissimo in their profession, is their main objective. [2006, Pt. Gopal Sharma, Pracharya Sewa Ram Jaipuria, Teach Yourself Numerology, New Delhi: Lotus Press, →ISBN, page 14:]
Nouns inflected like altaltissimo
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Probably derived from Italian alto + altissimo. See: Italian Nouns '
alto'.