idem

See also: Idem, IDEM, and ídem

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin idem ‎(“the same”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ.dɛm/, /ˈɪ.dɛm/

Adjective

idem ‎(not comparable)

1. The same.

Derived terms

• id. or id
• idempotence, idempotent

Usage notes

• Used almost exclusively in footnotes of academic or scholarly papers, especially those of the legal profession, to indicate that the source referred to in a footnote is the same as the source in the preceding footnote; usually abbreviated when so used.

Anagrams

• demi, Demi, dime, Dime

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adverb

idem

1. idem, ditto

Anagrams

• meid

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.dɛm/

Adverb

idem

1. idem, likewise

Anagrams

• demi, dîme

External links

• “idem” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈidem/
• Hyphenation: ì‧dem

Adverb

idem

1. ditto, and so, likewise, also

Pronoun

idem

1. ditto, the same

Anagrams

• dime, medi

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Latin

Alternative forms

• eidem (frequently in manuscripts and inscriptions)
• isdem, eisdem (rarely)

Etymology

From the pronoun is ‎(“he”) + Proto-Italic *-im ‎(emphatic marker) (whence Sabellic *-om, Oscan 𐌝𐌔𐌝𐌃𐌖𐌌 ‎(ísídum), 𐌄𐌔𐌝𐌃𐌖𐌌 ‎(esídum)), from Proto-Indo-European *im (whence also Old Latin im, em), accusative singular of *éy. The s was lost and the i lengthened by compensatory lengthening.

When the ablative cases eōd, eād became eō, eā, the true forms eōd-em, eād-em were interpreted as eō-dem, eā-dem. The neuter nominative singular id-em is natural and gives earlier emem (= later eundem). The new marker -dem then served to create totidem, tantumdem, ibīdem, etc. Compare tam-en with its later doublet: tan-dem.

Determiner

īdem m ‎(feminine eadem, neuter idem)

1. the same (usually with ablative)
   • 29 bc. Vergil. Georgics, III

     amor omnibvs idem

     Sex is the same for all of them [viz., every form of man, beast, aquatic or winged life, and livestock]

Inflection

Irregular declension. Similar to the declension of is, ea, id. Irregular: similar to first and second declensions, except for singular genitives ending in "-ius" and singular datives ending in "-ī".
Irregular: similar to first and second declensions, except for singular genitives ending in "-ius" and singular datives ending in "-ī".

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	īdem	eadem	idem		īdem	eaedem	eadem
genitive	eiusdem / ejusdem				eōrundem	eārundem	eōrundem
dative	eīdem				eīsdem / īsdem
accusative	eundem	eandem	idem		eōsdem	eāsdem	eadem
ablative	eōdem	eādem	eōdem		eīsdem / īsdem

See also

• is
• ea
• id

References

• idem in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• idem in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• idem in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hold the same views: idem sentire (opp. dissentire ab aliquo)
    
  • to agree with a person: consentire, idem sentire cum aliquo
    
  • to have the same meaning: idem valere, significare, declarare
    
  • synonyms: vocabula idem fere declarantia
    
  • to have the same political opinions: idem de re publica sentire
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press

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Portuguese

Pronoun

idem

1. (demonstrative) the aforesaid; ditto

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Serbo-Croatian

Verb

idem (Cyrillic spelling идем)

1. first-person singular present tense form of ići.