ipse.
himself, herself, itself, the very, the actual
Meaning & usage
himself, herself, itself, the very, the actual
specific reference to the chief, the leader, the one, etc., used to distinguish the principal person from the subordinates
in person
for one's part, for his part, for her part
alone, by oneself, by one's own accord, of one's own nature
just (with an adverb of time)
nunc ipsum
tum ipsum
exactly, precisely, just (with a numeral or for contrast)
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Proto-Italic *e(s)peso, a compound pronoun whose p sound has an origin difficult to trace. The p sound is traditionally explained as follows. In Old Latin when both parts were inflected, an epenthetic consonant, p, was inserted in the form *eum-sum, yielding *eum-p-sum. From these accusative forms the stems -pso and -psā were extracted and adapted to the nominative forms, thus *ipsus and *eapsa. Ultimately the paradigm was assimilated to that of iste, ille, with only later in the history of Latin neuter ipsum becoming ipsud. De Vaan argues that the p need not necessarily be epenthetic, but instead it may be the particle -pe.
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