item

See also: ítem

English

Etymology

From Middle English item, from Latin item (“also; in the same manner”). The present English meaning derives from a usage in lists, where the first entry would begin in primis (“firstly”) or imprimis, and the other entries with item (“also, moreover”). Later, the members of lists were referred to as "items".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪtəm/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [ˈaɪ̯ɾəm], [ˈaɪ̯ɾm̩]

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: item

Noun

item (plural items)

1. A distinct physical object.

   Tweezers are great for manipulating small items.

   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects   […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters  […] . But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.

2. (by extension, video games) An object that can be picked up for later use.
3. A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.

   the items in a bill

   In response to the first item, we deny all wrongdoing.

4. (psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.

   The exam has 100 items, each of which includes a correct response and three distractors.

5. A matter for discussion in an agenda.

   The first item for discussion is the budget for next year's picnic.

6. (informal) Two people who are having a relationship with each other.

   Jack and Jill are an item.

   • 2010, Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris, Baby

     Are we an item? Girl, quit playin' / "We're just friends," what are you sayin'?

7. A short article in a newspaper.

   an item concerning the weather

8. (obsolete) A hint; an innuendo.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:

     A secret item was given to some of the bishops […] to absent themselves.

Synonyms

• (object): article, object, thing
• (line of text having a legal or semantic meaning):
• (matter for discussion): subject, topic
• (two people who are having a relationship with each other): couple
• (psychometrics): test/assessment question

Hyponyms

• collector's item
• negative polarity item
• polarity item
• positive polarity item
• subitem

 

Derived terms

• itemise
• itemize
• itemset
• subitem

 

Translations

distinct physical object

• Arabic: بَنْد m (band)
• Armenian: միավոր (hy) (miavor), միույթ (miuytʻ)
• Bulgarian: обект (bg) m (obekt), предмет (bg) m (predmet)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 項目／项目 (zh) (xiàngmù), 项目 (zh) (xiàngmù), 東西／东西 (zh) (dōngxi)

• Czech: předmět (cs)
• Danish: stykke (da) n
• Dutch: exemplaar (nl) n, artikel (nl) n, stuk (nl) n, object (nl) n
• Esperanto: ero (eo)
• Estonian: ese (et)
• Finnish: esine (fi)
• French: article (fr) m, truc (fr) m
• Galician: artigo m
• German: Ding (de) n, Gegenstand (de) m, Stück (de) n, Artikel (de) m
• Hebrew: אבזר (he), פריט (he) m (prit)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Indonesian: benda (id), objek (id)
• Italian: articolo (it) m, elemento (it) m
• Japanese: 項目 (ja) (こうもく, kōmoku)
• Maori: tūemi
• Mongolian: зүйл (mn) (züjl)
• Polish: rzecz (pl) f, przedmiot (pl) m, sztuka (pl) f, obiekt (pl) m, artykuł (pl) m
• Portuguese: item (pt) m
• Romanian: articol (ro) n, exemplar (ro) n, bucată (ro) f, obiect (ro) n
• Russian: предме́т (ru) m (predmét), шту́ка (ru) f (štúka), вещь (ru) f (veščʹ)
• Slovene: predmet (sl) m
• Spanish: artículo (es), insumo (es), elemento (es), producto (es), ítem (es)
• Swahili: kifaa (sw)
• Swedish: föremål (sv) n, ting (sv) n, sak (sv) c
• Tigrinya: ውልቀ ነገር (wəlḳä nägär)
• Tocharian B: wreme

video games: object that can be picked up for later use

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 寶物／宝物 (zh) (bǎowù), 物品 (zh) (wùpǐn)

• Finnish: esine (fi), tavara (fi)
• German: Gegenstand (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 物品 (ja) (ぶっぴん, buppin), 品物 (ja) (しなもの, shinamono), アイテム (ja) (aitemu), 持ち物 (もちもの, mochimono)
• Korean: 아이템 (aitem)
• Spanish: ítem (es)

line of text having a particular meaning

• Armenian: հոդված (hy) (hodvac)
• Bulgarian: параграф (bg) m (paragraf)
• Czech: položka (cs)
• Danish: punkt (da) n
• Finnish: kohta (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: tūemi
• Russian: строка (ru) f (stroka), позиция (ru) f (pozicija), пункт (ru) m (punkt)
• Ukrainian: пози́ція (uk) (pozýcija), пункт (punkt)

test assessment question

• Finnish: kohta (fi), kysymys (fi), tehtävä (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

matter for discussion in an agenda

• Bulgarian: точка (bg) f (točka), пункт (bg) m (punkt)
• Czech: bod (cs) m
• Danish: punkt (da) n
• Dutch: agendapunt (nl) n
• Finnish: esityslistan kohta, kohta (fi), asiakohta
• French: point (fr) m
• Italian: punto (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: kaupapa
• Portuguese: item (pt) m
• Romanian: punct de agendă n
• Slovene: zadeva f
• Swedish: punkt u
• Ukrainian: пита́ння (uk) (pytánnja)

informal: two people who are having a relationship with each other

• Dutch: koppeltje (nl) n
• Finnish: pari (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: пара (ru) f (para)

short article

• Finnish: juttu (fi)
• Maori: pito kōrero
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: статья́ (ru) f (statʹjá) заме́тка (ru) f (zamétka)
• Ukrainian: стаття́ (uk) f (stattjá), замі́тка f (zamítka)

hint; innuendo

• Finnish: vihje (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Verb

item (third-person singular simple present items, present participle iteming, simple past and past participle itemed)

1. (transitive) To make a note of.

Related terms

• itemize

Adverb

item (not comparable)

1. likewise

Anagrams

• -time, METI, emit, it me, mite, time

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪtɛm]

Adverb

item

1. (archaic) as well

   Synonyms: také, rovněž, dále, kromě toho

   Jedná se o zdravý všelék proti bolestem a item proti závrati. ― It's a healthy universal cure for pain and also for vertigo.

Further reading

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French

Etymology

Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.tɛm/

• Audio

  (file)

Adverb

item

1. same; in the same way

Further reading

• “item”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin item.

Adverb

item

1. (law) in the same way

Etymology 2

From English item, from Latin item.

Noun

item m (uncountable)

1. (computer science) a single programmed unit
2. (linguistics) an element of a grammatical or lexical set

Anagrams

• mite, temi

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Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *éy and *só. Compare ita and itidem.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tem/, [ˈɪt̪ɛ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tem/, [ˈiːt̪em]

Adverb

item (not comparable)

1. just like (in a comparison)
   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 5.4:

     HĒGIŌ. Salvē, exoptāte gnāte mī. TYNDARUS. Hem, quid 'gnāte mī'?
     Attat, sciō quor tē patrem assimules esse et mē fīlium:
     quia mī item ut parentēs lūcis dās tuendī cōpiam.

     HEGIO. Hello, my wished-for son. TYNDARUS. Huh, what 'my son'?
     Alas, I know why you act as if you were a father and I your son:
     because you give me the means to see the light, just like parents do.

   • 46 BCE, Cicero, Orator 60:

     Ita fit ut nōn item in ōrātiōne ut in versū numerus exstet, idque quod numerōsum in ōrātiōne dīcitur nōn semper numerō fīat, sed nōnnunquam aut concinnitāte aut cōnstructiōne verbōrum.

     So it turns out that there isn't a metre in prose just like in verse, and that which in oration is called 'metrical' is not always caused by metre, but also on occasion by the euphony and construction of the words.

See also

Latin correlatives ^(edit)

type	demonstrative			anaphoric	identity	interrogative/ relative	indefinite					negative	other
	proximal	medial	distal				relative	indefinite	universal	free choice	negative polarity
basic	hic	iste, istic	ille, illic	is	ipse, īdem	quis/quī	quisquis, quīcumque	quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quispiam	quisque	quīvis, quīlibet	quisquam, ūllus, °aliquisquam	nēmō, nihil, nūllus	alius
dual						uter	utercumque	alteruter	uterque	utervīs, uterlibet		neuter	alter
place	hīc	istīc	illīc	ibī̆	ibī̆dem	ubī̆	ubiubi, ubī̆cumque	alicubī, uspiam	ubīque	ubivīs, ubilibet	usquam	nusquam, nūllibī	alibī, aliās
source	hinc	istinc	illinc	inde	indidem	unde	undecumque, undeunde	alicunde	undique	°undelibet			aliunde
destination	hūc, °hōrsum	istūc, °istōrsum	illūc, °illōrsum	eō	eōdem	quō, quōrsum	quōquō, quōcumque	aliquō, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum		quōvīs, quōlibet	quōquam	nusquam, nūllōrsum	aliō, aliōrsum
method, means, path, place	hāc	istāc	illāc	eā	eādem	quā	quāquā, quācumque	aliquā	quāque	quāvīs, quālibet		nēquāquam, haudquāquam	aliā
manner	hōc modō	istō modō	illō modō	ita, sīc, eō modō	item, itidem	ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum	utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque	quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō	utique	quōmodolibet	ūllō modō	nūllō modō	aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō
time	num, nunc		ōlim	tum, tunc	simul	quandō, ‡cum	cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque	quondam, aliquandō	quandōque	quandōlibet	umquam	numquam	aliās
quantity				tam	†tamen, †tandem	quam	†quamquam	aliquam		quamvīs, quamlibet
size				tantus	tantusdem	quantus	quantuscumque	aliquantus		quantusvīs, quantuslibet
quality				tālis		quālis	quālis, quāliscumque	aliquālis		quālislibet
number				tot	totidem	quot	quotquot, quotcumque	aliquot		quotlibet
order				totus		quotus	quotuscumque	aliquotus		quotuslibet
repetition				totiēns		quotiēns	quotiēnscumque	aliquotiēns		quotiēnslibet
multiplication				totuplex		quotuplex
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated ° Rare ‡only used as a conjunction, not as an interrogative

References

• “item”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• item in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• item in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Middle English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin item.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːtɛm/

Adverb

item

1. also, and this

Further reading

• “item, adv. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Noun

item

1. the same; identical.

Descendants

• English: item
• Scots: eetem

Further reading

• “item, adv. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

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Middle French

Etymology

Latin.

Adverb

item

1. same; in the same way

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Old French

Etymology

Latin.

Adverb

item

1. same; in the same way

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Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin item (“also; in the same manner”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tẽj̃/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tɛm/, /ˈi.tɐ̃j̃/
• Hyphenation: i‧tem

Noun

1. item
2. A matter for discussion in an agenda or elsewhere.

   O primeiro item a considerar é o orçamento para o próximo piquenique.

   The first point to consider is the budget for the next picnic.

3. A line of text with some meaning.

   Consideremos um item de cada vez.

   Let's look at one item at a time.