passim

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæsɪm/

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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 , 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 .

   • 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).

passim (not comparable)

1. (rare) That occurs at various places throughout a text
   • 1895, J. Marshall, Westminster Gazette, 4, September 2/3:

     In these passim allusions one often ‘nods’.

• sampis

• passi (Late Latin, proscribed)

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

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

• English: passim

• “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 (2003-2025), 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)
    

Unadapted borrowing from Latin passim.

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• “passim”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10