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English
Etymology
Plural of house by analogy with mouse → mice, louse → lice.
Pronunciation
Noun
hice
- (chiefly humorous, nonstandard) plural of house
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *hek(e); see hic for more. Seemingly the more archaic form, retained rarely in Classical Latin as an emphatic variant and reanalysed as hic + -ce.
Adjective
hice (feminine haece, neuter hoce)
- Emphatic form of hic.
106 BCE – 43 BCE,
Cicero,
Pro Lege Manilia 13.18:
- Itinera quae per hosce annos in Italia per agros atque oppida civium Romanorum nostri imperatores fecerint, recordamini.
- Recall the tours our generals have carried out these years in Italy, through the lands and towns of Roman citizens.
Pronoun
hice m (feminine haece, neuter hoce)
- Emphatic form of hic.
170 BCE – c. 86 BCE,
Accius,
Didascalica 1.4:
- Num ergo aquila ita ut hice praedicant sciciderat pectus?
- Surely then an eagle did not tear apart his breast as these men declare?
Declension
Demonstrative pronoun.
References
Spanish
Pronunciation
Verb
hice
- first-person singular preterite indicative of hacer