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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ɪlˈloːk][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [ilˈlɔk][1]

Forms

illōc (not comparable)[1]

Etymology

It is perhaps from Latin illic1 (“that”), an old instrumental case form of the pronoun.[2] Wiktionary likewise takes it as an instrumental of ille (“that”) with the particle -ce, and compares hōc beside hūc.[1] De Vaan lists it among the adverbs made from ille.[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

De Vaan dates it from Livius Andronicus.[3] Plautus has post illōc quam vēnī, “after I came there”.[4][5]

Semantic evolution

It is the old form of illūc, “thither”,[6][1] found in Plautus and Terence;[4][5][7] at one place in Terence the manuscripts now read illō instead.[4] Petronius has et hōc et illōc, “this way and that”, of the sign of the Crab.[7][2] In a speech of the emperor Claudius preserved in an inscription, illōc potius revertar means “I would rather go back to that point”, of a topic already mentioned.[2][4]

Timeline

  • 280/260–before 200 BC – Livius Andronicus uses it.[3][8]
  • c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it in the Truculentus.[4][5][8]
  • 190–159 BC – Terence uses it in the Eunuch.[4][5][8]
  • before 66 AD – Petronius has hōc et illōc, “this way and that”.[7][8]

Meanings

Adverb

  1. To that place, thither, there.[2][4][6]
  2. hōc et illōc: this way and that.[2][7]
  3. (transferred) To that subject, back to the point mentioned.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
  5. ^ a b c d Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  6. ^ a b Lewis, Charlton T. (1890), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: American Book Company
  7. ^ a b c d Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
  8. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de