Latin

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Etymology

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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

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

  1. the very same
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Descendants

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References

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