ecce hic
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From ecce + hīc. Attested in Egeria, Augustine, and Gregory of Tours.[1]
Adverb edit
ecce hīc (not comparable) (Late Latin)
- here (emphatic)
Descendants edit
- Gallo-Italic:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Forms with /i-/ added by analogy with derivatives of illōc:
See also edit
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “hīc”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 423
- ^ 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. 282.