idem

English

Etymology

From Middle English idem, borrowed from Latin idem (“the same”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪ.dɛm/, /ˈaɪ.dɛm/

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Pronoun

idem

1. The same.

Usage notes

Used almost exclusively in footnotes of academic or scholarly papers, especially those of the legal profession, to indicate that the source or author referred to in a footnote is the same as in the preceding footnote; usually abbreviated when so used.

Related terms

Translations

See also

• ditto

Further reading

• idem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Demi, Diem, Dime, IMed, demi, demi-, dime, meid

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adverb

idem

1. idem, ditto

Anagrams

• meid

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin idem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.dɛm/

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Adverb

idem

1. idem, likewise

   Synonym: id.

   pour moi c’est idem ― it's all the same to me

   • 1968, “Requiem pour un con”, Serge Gainsbourg (music), performed by Serge Gainsbourg:

     Pour moi c’est idem / Que ça te plaise ou non / J’te l’rejoue quand même / Pauvre con

     It's all the same to me / Whether you like it or not / I'll play it for you again anyway / You stupid idiot

Further reading

• “idem”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Anagrams

• demi, dîme

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch idem, from Latin idem (“the same”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪ.dəm/, /ˈɪ.dɛm/

Pronoun

idem

1. idem

Derived terms

Further reading

• “idem” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Anagrams

• demi

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.dem/
• Rhymes: -idem
• Hyphenation: ì‧dem

Adverb

idem

1. ditto, and so, likewise, also

Pronoun

idem

1. ditto, the same

References

Anagrams

• dime, medi

Latin

Alternative forms

• eidem (frequently in manuscripts and inscriptions)
• isdem, eisdem (rarely)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *izdim; equivalent to is (“he”) + Proto-Italic *-im (emphatic marker) (whence Sabellic *-om, Oscan 𐌝𐌔𐌝𐌃𐌖𐌌 (ísídum), 𐌄𐌔𐌝𐌃𐌖𐌌 (esídum)), from Proto-Indo-European *im (whence also Old Latin im, em), accusative singular of *éy (so both parts are from the same source). The s was lost and the i lengthened by compensatory lengthening.

When is' ablative cases eōd, eād became eō, eā, idem's ablative true forms eōd-em, eād-em were interpreted as eō-dem, eā-dem. The neuter nominative singular id-em is natural and gives earlier emem (= later eundem). The new marker -dem then served to create totidem, tantumdem, ibīdem, etc. Compare tam-en with its later doublet: tan-dem (← *tam-dem).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.dem/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.dem/,

Pronoun

īdem (feminine eadem, neuter idem); demonstrative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion

1. the same
   • 29 bc. Virgil. Georgics, III

     amor omnibus īdem

     Love is the same for all

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.678-679:

     “ Eadem mē ad fāta vocāssēs:
     īdem ambās ferrō dolor, atque eadem hōra tulisset.”

     “You should have called me to the same fate: Both of us could have been taken by the sword – the same pain, and at the same hour.”
     (Anna speaks to her dying sister, Dido.)

Declension

Irregular declension. Similar to the declension of is, ea, id. Demonstrative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion.

¹The nom./dat./abl. plural forms regularly developed into a monosyllable /iː(s)/, with later remodelling - compare the etymology of deus. This /iː/ was normally spelled as EI during and as II after the Republic; a disyllabic iī, spelled II, Iꟾ, appears in Silver Age poetry, while disyllabic eīs is only post-Classical. Other spellings include EEI(S), EIEI(S), IEI(S).
²The dat. singular is found spelled EIEI (here represented as ēī) and scanned as two longs in Plautus, but also as a monosyllable. The latter is its normal scansion in Classical. Other spellings include EEI, IEI.

Derived terms

• identidem
• identitās (see there for further derivatives)

Related terms

References

• “idem”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “idem”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• idem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hold the same views: idem sentire (opp. dissentire ab aliquo)
    
  • to agree with a person: consentire, idem sentire cum aliquo
    
  • to have the same meaning: idem valere, significare, declarare
    
  • synonyms: vocabula idem fere declarantia
    
  • to have the same political opinions: idem de re publica sentire
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Pronoun

idem

1. (demonstrative) idem, ditto (the aforesaid, the same)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin idem.

Adverb

idem

1. idem

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

idem (Cyrillic spelling идем)

1. first-person singular present of ići

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

idem

1. first-person singular present of ísť