metipse

Latin

Etymology

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.

Determiner

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

1. the very same

Related terms

• *metipsimus

Descendants

• 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