ille Latin · revision 17713

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=c. 450 BC, Twelve Tables|origins=la olle}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɪl.lɛ]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈil.le]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ille''' (feminine illa, neuter illud); demonstrative determiner (pronominal declension)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It replaced the Old Latin pronoun [[m|la|olle]] (also [[m|la|ollus]]), and the OLD takes it as an altered form of that word.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) The change of /o/ to /i/ is usually put down to the influence of [[iste]], though Sihler explained it from an unstressed form ⟨*elle⟩.^(de Vaan 2008) If the variant in ⟨-us⟩ comes from ⟨*ol-no-⟩, the form in ⟨-e⟩ may continue a nominative ⟨*ol-so⟩, as the nominative of the other pronoun continues ⟨*es-to⟩.^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary traces the old pronoun to [[itc-pro|*olnos]], from [[ine-pro|*h₂el-|t=beyond, other]], the root of [[uls]] and [[alius]].^(Wiktionary) The TLL compares [[osc|ulleis]] and reports that others derived it from ⟨*is-le⟩.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found in the Twelve Tables.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Ille'' is the demonstrative of what is remote from the speaker (“that”), beside ''[[hic]]'' “this (near me)” and ''[[iste]]''.^(OLD 2012) It marks something known or famous (''ille rēx Philippus'' “the famous King Philip”) or contemptuously notorious, and with ''hic'' it means “the former”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Late Latin it became the third-person pronoun and the [[m|en|definite article]], the source of the Romance articles and pronouns.^(Wiktionary)^(Niermeyer 1976) In medieval formulas it stands for a name to be filled in, “so-and-so”.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 450 BC – Used in the Twelve Tables.^(de Vaan 2008)

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses the adverb ''illinc'' “from there”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus has a character say ''ego sum ille rēx Philippus'' “I am that famous King Philip”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 550–1150 – Medieval Latin uses ''ille'' as an article and as “so-and-so” in formulas.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Pronoun===

+ # [[m|en|that]] (pointed out by the speaker, or just mentioned); ''(plural)'' those.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # That well-known, that famous; that notorious.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(in contrast with hic)'' The other, the former.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of that period; of that kind, such.^(OLD 2012)

+ # He, she, it (as a pronoun).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' The (as a definite article).^(Wiktionary)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin, in formulas)'' So-and-so.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[illīc]]

+ * [[illinc]]

+ * [[illūc]]

+ * [[illō]]

+ * [[illāc]]

+ * [[illim]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[olle]]

+ * [[hic]]

+ * [[iste]]

+ * [[alius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}