passim
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Latin passim (“here and there, everywhere”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]passim (not comparable)
- Throughout (used in citations to indicate that something, as a word, phrase, or idea, is to be found at many places throughout the work cited).
- 1751, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals:
- The sceptics assert [Sext. Emp. adversus Math. lib. viii.], though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects, as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind. This is also the common reason assigned by historians, for the deification of eminent heroes and legislators [Diod. Sic. passim.].
- 1978, Supreme Court of the United States, F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation:
- See also Hearings on H.R.8825 before the House Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 70th Cong., 1st Sess., passim (1928).
Adjective
[edit]passim (not comparable)
- (rare) That which occurs at various places throughout a text
- 1895, J. Marshall, Westminster Gazette, 4, September 2/3:
- In these passim allusions one often ‘nods’.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]here and there
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pandō (“spread out, unfold”) + -tim.
Adverb
[edit]passim (not comparable)
- everywhere
- here and there, hither and thither; (at or to different places)
- without distinction, without order, randomly
- Synonym: prōmiscē
- mindlessly, without thinking about it
- Synonym: temere
Descendants
[edit]- English: passim
References
[edit]- “passim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “passim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- passim in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- passim 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)
- passim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- far and wide; on all sides; everywhere: longe lateque, passim (e.g. fluere)
- far and wide; on all sides; everywhere: longe lateque, passim (e.g. fluere)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin passim.
Adverb
[edit]passim
Spanish
[edit]Adverb
[edit]passim
Further reading
[edit]- “passim”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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