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Latin
Etymology
From mē (accusative of ego (“I”)) + -met (“-self”, intensive suffix).
Pronoun
mēmet
- accusative of egomet; me myself, my own self, my very self
Nec me secus umquam ei facturum quicquam quam memet mihi.- Or ever act any differently towards him than I would towards my own self.
c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE,
Plautus,
Amphitryon 2.1.607:
- Quis tē verberāvit? —Egomet mēmet, quī nunc sum domī.
- Who has beaten you? —I myself, who am now at home, beat myself.
- ablative of egomet; with me myself, in me myself
References
- “memet”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “memet”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- memet in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Swedish
Noun
memet
- definite singular of meme