eccum

Latin

Etymology

Ellipsis and contraction of ecce eum vidē (literally “see him come” or “see him here”) or like addresses.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛk.kũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛk.kum]

Phrase

eccum m (feminine eccam, plural eccōs, feminine plural eccās)

1. (of something coming) there or here I am/you are/he is; here I come/you come/he comes; here is, see here
   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 4.6.65–66:

     Sed quid ego video? — Quid vides? — Nescio quis eccum incedit
     ornatu quidem thalassico.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (of something present) I am/you are/he is there or here; I am/you are/he is come; here is, see here
   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 285–286:

     Quem tu parasitum quaeris, adulescens, meum?
     — Peniculum. — Eccum in vidulo salvom fero.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 1.2.71:

     Milphio, heus, ubi es? — Assum apud te, eccum.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• *eccum hāc (Vulgar Latin)
• *eccum hīc (Vulgar Latin)
• *eccum hoc (Vulgar Latin)
• *eccum illāc (Vulgar Latin)
• *eccum ille (Vulgar Latin)
• *eccum illōc (Vulgar Latin)
• *eccum illūc (Vulgar Latin)
• *eccum inde (Vulgar Latin)
• *eccum ipse (Vulgar Latin)
• *eccum iste (Vulgar Latin)
• *eccum modo (Vulgar Latin)
• *eccum sīc (Vulgar Latin)
• *eccum tālis (Vulgar Latin)
• *eccum tantum (Vulgar Latin)

Related terms

• eccere
• eccillum, ellum
• eccistum

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ecco, ⇒ vecco (Tuscan), ⇒ vecchelo (Arezzo)
  • Judeo-Italian: אֵיקוֹ (ʔeqo /⁠ecco⁠/)
  • Sicilian: eccu
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Occitan: ec, ⇒ vec, bec, beg, bet, beps
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: eccu

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ecce”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 202

Further reading

• “eccum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “eccum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “eccum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.