tutemet

Latin

Etymology

From tūte (“yourself”) + -met (“self”), adding emphasis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtuː.te.met/, [ˈt̪uːt̪ɛmɛt̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.te.met/, [ˈt̪uːt̪emet̪]

Pronoun

tūtemet

1. emphatic form of tū (you), you yourself
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 1.102:

     Tutemet a nobis iam quovis tempore vatum
     terriloquis victus dictis desciscere quaeres.

Declension

Pronominal declension with -met suffix.

Case	Singular
Nominative	tūtemet
Genitive	tuīmet
Dative	tibimet
Accusative	temet
Ablative	temet
Vocative	tūtemet

References

• “tutemet”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tutemet”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tutemet in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.