memet

Latin

Etymology

From mē (accusative of ego (“I”)) +‎ -met (“-self”, intensive suffix).

Pronoun

mēmet

1. accusative of egomet; me myself, my own self, my very self

   Nec me secus umquam ei facturum quicquam quam memet mihi.

   Or ever act any differently towards him than I would towards my own self.

   • c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 2.1.607:

     Quis tē verberāvit? —Egomet mēmet, quī nunc sum domī.

     Who has beaten you? —I myself, who am now at home, beat myself.

2. ablative of egomet; with me myself, in me myself

References

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

Swedish

Noun

memet

1. definite singular of meme