eodem

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Latin

Etymology

From +‎ -dem.

Adverb

eōdem (not comparable)

  1. to the same (place, person, thing)
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 5.5:
      Ibi cognoscit LX naves, quae in Meldis factae erant, tempestate reiectas cursum tenere non potuisse atque eodem unde erant profectae revertisse.
      There he discovers that sixty ships, which had been built in the country of the Meldi, having been driven back by a storm, had been unable to maintain their course, and had returned to the same port from which they had set out.
    • 45 BCE, Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum 2.102:
      Idemne potest esse dies saepius, qui semel fuit? Certe non potest. An eiusdem modi? Ne id quidem, nisi multa annorum intercesserint milia, ut omnium siderum eodem, unde profecta sint, fiat ad unum tempus reversio.
      Can a day again be, which already was? It assuredly cannot. Or even a similar day? Not even that can be, unless many thousands of years have passed, so that all the stars simultaneously return to the place whence they have moved.

Related terms

Determiner

eōdem

  1. ablative masculine/neuter singular of īdem

References

  • eodem”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • eodem”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • eodem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • these things have the same origin: haec ex eodem fonte fluunt, manant
    • to use the same simile, illustration: ut in eodem simili verser