metipse

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From the rebracketing of expressions such as egomet ipse (‘I’ with double emphasis), with the emphatic -met transferred from the pronoun to ipse (emphatic demonstrative). Attested in a text from the seventh century.^[1]

Determiner edit

metipse (feminine metipsa, neuter metipsum) (Early Medieval Latin)

the very same

Related terms edit

*metipsimus

Descendants edit

Gallo-Romance:
- Old Catalan: mateix, meteix, mesex, meseix
  - Catalan: mateix
  - → Sardinia:
    - Gallurese: mattessi
    - Sardinian: matéssi, matéssiu, mantéssi
    - Sassarese: matéssi
- Old Occitan: meteix
  - Languedocien: meteis
  - Provençal: meteis
  - Vivaro-Alpine: meteis
- Gascon: medish, medeish, madeish
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: medes
- Old Spanish: medes

References edit

^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ĭpse, -a”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 808

[1] Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ĭpse, -a”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 808

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