hice

See also: Hice and híce

English edit

Etymology edit

Plural of house by analogy with mouse → mice, louse → lice.

Pronunciation edit

enPR: hīs, IPA^(key): /haɪs/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -aɪs

Noun edit

hice

(chiefly humorous, nonstandard) plural of house

Anagrams edit

Eich, chie

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Italic *hek(e); see hic for more. Seemingly the more archaic form, retained rarely in Classical Latin as an emphatic variant and reanalysed as hic +‎ -ce.

Adjective edit

hice (feminine haece, neuter hoce)

Emphatic form of hic.
- 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia 13.18:
  Itinera quae per hosce annos in Italia per agros atque oppida civium Romanorum nostri imperatores fecerint, recordamini.
  Recall the tours our generals have carried out these years in Italy, through the lands and towns of Roman citizens.

Pronoun edit

hice m (feminine haece, neuter hoce)

Emphatic form of hic.
- 170 BCE – c. 86 BCE, Accius, Didascalica 1.4:
  Num ergo aquila ita ut hice praedicant sciciderat pectus?
  Surely then an eagle did not tear apart his breast as these men declare?
- c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.16.4:
  Caecilii versus hice sunt.
  These are the lines of Caecilius.

Declension edit

Demonstrative pronoun.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	hice	haece	hoce	hīce	haece
Genitive	huiusce			hōrunce hōrumce	hārunce hārumce	hōrunce hōrumce
Dative	huīce			hīsce
Accusative	hunce	hance	hoce	hōsce	hāsce	haece
Ablative	hōce	hāce	hōce	hīsce

References edit

“hice”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈiθe/ [ˈi.θe]
IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈise/ [ˈi.se]
(Spain) Rhymes: -iθe
(Latin America) Rhymes: -ise
Syllabification: hi‧ce
Homophone: ice

Verb edit

hice

first-person singular preterite indicative of hacer