huiuscemodi Latin · revision 32959

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la hic, la modus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [hʊj.jʊsˈkɛ.mɔ.diː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [u.juʃˈʃɛː.mo.di]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''huiuscemodī''' (indeclinable)^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''hūjuscemodī'',^(Wiktionary) and has a shorter form ''hūiusmodī''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a phrase grown into one word, made of forms of [[hic]] “this” and [[modus]] “manner, kind”.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) whose ''De inventione'' says that a question is of this kind.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is of this kind or sort, such, in Cicero, Sallust, Fronto and Gellius: Sallust has words of this kind.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary also gives an adverbial use, in this manner, thus, and a Late and Medieval Latin noun use, this sort of thing, the like.^(Wiktionary) Köbler records it in the Bible and in early medieval law codes.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a question of this kind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust of words of this kind.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of this kind or sort, [[m|en|such]] (indeclinable).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Adverb===

+ # In this manner, [[m|en|thus]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(Late Latin, Medieval Latin)'' This sort of thing, the like.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[huiusmodi|alt=huiusmodī]]

+ * [[hic]]

+ * [[modus]]

+ * [[eiusmodi|alt=eiusmodī]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}