idem

See also: Idem, IDEM, and ídem

English

Etymology

From Latin idem (the same).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɪ.dɛm/, /ˈɪ.dɛm/

Adjective

idem (not comparable)

  1. The same.

Usage notes

Used almost exclusively in footnotes of academic or scholarly papers, especially those of the legal profession, to indicate that the source or author referred to in a footnote is the same as in the preceding footnote; usually abbreviated when so used.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Adverb

idem

  1. idem, ditto

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin idem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /i.dɛm/

Adverb

idem

  1. idem, likewise
    Synonym: id.
    • 1968, Serge Gainsbourg (music), “Requiem pour un con”, performed by Serge Gainsbourg:
      Pour moi c'est idem / Que ça te plaise ou non / J'te l'rejoue quand même / Pauvre con
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
    pour moi c'est idemit's all the same to me

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈidem/
  • Hyphenation: ì‧dem

Adverb

idem

  1. ditto, and so, likewise, also

Pronoun

idem

  1. ditto, the same

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the pronoun is (he) + Proto-Italic *-im (emphatic marker) (whence Sabellic *-om, Oscan 𐌝𐌔𐌝𐌃𐌖𐌌 (ísídum), 𐌄𐌔𐌝𐌃𐌖𐌌 (esídum)), from Proto-Indo-European *im (whence also Old Latin im, em), accusative singular of *éy (so both parts are from the same source). The s was lost and the i lengthened by compensatory lengthening.[2]

When the ablative cases eōd, eād became , , the true forms eōd-em, eād-em were interpreted as eō-dem, eā-dem. The neuter nominative singular id-em is natural and gives earlier emem (= later eundem). The new marker -dem then served to create totidem, tantumdem, ibīdem, etc. Compare tam-en with its later doublet: tan-dem (← *tam-dem).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈiː.dem/, [ˈiː.dẽ]

Determiner

īdem m (feminine eadem, neuter idem)

  1. the same
    • 29 bc. Vergil. Georgics, III
      amor omnibvs idem
      Love is the same for all

Inflection

Irregular declension. Similar to the declension of is, ea, id. Irregular: similar to first and second declensions, except for genitive singular ending in -ius and dative singular ending in .

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative īdem eadem idem eīdem
īdem
eaedem eadem
Genitive eiusdem
ejusdem
eōrundem eārundem eōrundem
Dative eīdem eīsdem
īsdem
Accusative eundem eandem idem eōsdem eāsdem eadem
Ablative eōdem eādem eōdem eīsdem
īsdem

Derived terms

References

  • idem in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • idem in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • idem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to hold the same views: idem sentire (opp. dissentire ab aliquo)
    • to agree with a person: consentire, idem sentire cum aliquo
    • to have the same meaning: idem valere, significare, declarare
    • synonyms: vocabula idem fere declarantia
    • to have the same political opinions: idem de re publica sentire
  • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
  1. idem in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  2. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “-dem”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 166

Portuguese

Pronoun

idem

  1. (demonstrative) idem, ditto (the aforesaid, the same)

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

idem (Cyrillic spelling идем)

  1. first-person singular present of ići
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