huiusmodi Latin · revision 33584

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la hic, la modus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''huiusmodī''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ It is often written separately, ''huius modī'', and a strengthened ''huiusce modī'' also occurs.^(OLD 2012)

+ It is also spelled ''hujusmodī''.^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[m|la|huius|t=of this]], the genitive of [[m|la|hic|t=this]], with [[m|la|modī]], the genitive of [[m|la|modus|t=measure, manner]], literally “of this manner”.^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan derives ⟨modus⟩ from [[itc-pro|*medo-|t=measure, judgement]] and [[ine-pro|*med-o-|t=measure]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Terence as its first author,^(Köbler 2010) but the OLD cites it already from Plautus' ''Captivi'': ''huius modi paucas poetae reperiunt comoedias'', “poets find few comedies of this kind”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means of this kind, such:^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Cicero speaks of conversations of this kind and Caesar uses it in the ''Gallic War''; the form ''huiusce modī'' is in Cicero, Sallust, Fronto and Gellius.^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary also gives the sense likewise, the like.^(Wiktionary) In Church Latin it is of this kind, of such kind,^(Stelten 1995) and in medieval Latin it serves as an indeclinable pronoun, such, or simply this.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of comedies of this kind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * Medieval Latin – An indeclinable pronoun, such; this.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Of this kind, [[m|en|such]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # Likewise, the like.^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' This.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[hic]]

+ * [[modus]]

+ * [[eiusmodī]]

+ * [[cuiusmodī]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}