ipso facto

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ipsō factō (“by the same fact”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪpsəʊ ˈfæktəʊ/

Adverb

ipso facto (not comparable)

1. By that very fact itself; actually. Compare: eo ipso.
   • 1999 April, Bryan Caplan, "The Austrian Search for Realistic Foundations", in Southern Economic Journal, volume 65, number 4, page 833:

     For [Ludwig von] Mises or [Murray] Rothbard, it is simply confused to posit latent preferences; if two individuals fail to make an exchange, then this ipso facto demonstrates that at that moment at least one of them would not have benefited from the exchange.

Translations

By that fact

• Bulgarian: са́мо по се́бе си (sámo po sébe si)
• Czech: samo o sobě
• Finnish: itsessään
• French: ipso facto (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: ipso facto (de)
• Latin: ipso facto
• Spanish: ipso facto (es)
• Swedish: ipso facto, genom sakens natur

Further reading

• The Oxford English Dictionary (2007)
• “ipso facto”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Italian

Alternative forms

• issofatto (vernacular)

Etymology

From Latin ipsō factō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.psoˈfak.to/

Adverb

ipso facto

1. immediately

   lo cacciò ipso facto da casa sua ― he immediately kicked him out of his house

   Synonyms: immediatamente, issofatto, subito

2. (chiefly law) By that very fact itself; automatically, ipso facto

   Synonym: automaticamente

References

• ipso facto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana