metipse
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the rebracketing of expressions such as egomet ipse (‘I’ with double emphasis), with the emphatic -met transferred from the pronoun to ipse (emphatic demonstrative). Attested in a text from the seventh century.[1]
Determiner[edit]
metipse (feminine metipsa, neuter metipsum) (Early Medieval Latin)
- the very same
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References[edit]
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ĭpse, -a”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 808