ipsissima verba
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin ipsissima verba (“the very words”).
Phrase
[edit]- The actual words (spoken or transcribed).
- 1941, Engelbrecht v Nieuwoudt | CPD 54 at 55:
- "The record in the magistrate's court does not purport to reproduce the ipsissima verba of the witness; it does not give questions and answers in the exact words in which the question was put and the answer made; it, at best, gives no more than a summary...."
References
[edit]- “ipsissima verba”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.