ecce hoc
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Latin
editEtymology
editFrom ecce (“behold, voilà”) + hoc (“this”). Found beginning in the fourth century CE, notably in Augustine.[1]
Pronoun
edit- this (emphatic)
- 354 CE – 430 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, In Psalmum 25 enarratio 2 (sermo ad plebem) :
- Et ecce hoc est deponere veterem hominem, et induere novum: Quapropter, deponentes mendacium, loquimini veritatem, unusquisque cum proximo suo: quia sumus invicem membra.
- And this is to shed the old self and put on the new self. Therefore, as you put away lying, speak the truth, each to your neighbour, for we are members (of one body) to each other (Ephesians 4:25).
- Et ecce hoc est deponere veterem hominem, et induere novum: Quapropter, deponentes mendacium, loquimini veritatem, unusquisque cum proximo suo: quia sumus invicem membra.
Descendants
edit- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
See also
editReferences
edit- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “hŏc”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 442
- ^ Sornicola, Rosanna. 2011. Per la storia dei dimostrativi romanzi: i tipi neutri [tso], [so], [ço], [tʃo] e la diacronia dei dimostrativi latini. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 127. 1–80. §9.2.