passim

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English

WOTD – 2 January 2007

Etymology

From the Latin passim (“here and there, everywhere”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpæsɪm/
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Adverb

passim (not comparable)

  1. Throughout (used in citations to indicate that something, as a word, phrase, or idea, is to be found at many places throughout the work cited).
    • 1751, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals:
      The sceptics assert [Sext. Emp. adversus Math. lib. viii.], though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects, as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind. This is also the common reason assigned by historians, for the deification of eminent heroes and legislators [Diod. Sic. passim.].
    • 1978, Supreme Court of the United States, F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation:
      See also Hearings on H.R.8825 before the House Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 70th Cong., 1st Sess., passim (1928).

Adjective

passim (not comparable)

  1. (rare) That which occurs at various places throughout a text
    • 1895, J. Marshall, Westminster Gazette, 4, September 2/3:
      In these passim allusions one often ‘nods’.

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Latin

Etymology

From pandō (“spread out, unfold”) +‎ -tim.

Adverb

passim (not comparable)

  1. everywhere
    Synonyms: ubique, quācumquē
  2. here and there, hither and thither; (at or to different places)
  3. without distinction, without order, randomly
    Synonym: prōmiscē
  4. mindlessly, without thinking about it
    Synonym: temere

Descendants

  • English: passim

References

  • “passim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “passim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • passim in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • passim in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • passim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • far and wide; on all sides; everywhere: longe lateque, passim (e.g. fluere)

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin passim.

Adverb

passim

  1. passim

Spanish

Adverb

passim

  1. passim

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