idem

See also: Idem, IDEM, and ídem

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪ.dɛm/, /ˈaɪ.dɛm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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

• ad idem
• consensus ad idem
• idemfaciend
• idemfacient
• idemfactor
• idempotence, idempotent
• idem sonans
• id. or id
• ne bis in idem
• semper idem

 

Translations

Translations

• German: derselbe (de) (ders. (de))

See also

• ditto

Further reading

• idem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adverb

idem

1. idem, ditto

Anagrams

• meid

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin idem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.dɛm/

• Audio:

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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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 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

• idem ditto

 

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 of 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

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. De verborum significatione gives emem as a form of the later eundem.[1] 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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.dem/, [ˈiːd̪ɛ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.dem/, [ˈiːd̪em]

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.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	īdem	eadem	idem		īdem1	eaedem	eadem
Genitive	eiusdem ejusdem				eōrundem eōrumdem eundem eumdem	eārundem eārumdem	eōrundem eōrumdem eundem eumdem
Dative	eīdem2 e͡idem ēīdem	eīdem2 e͡idem ēīdem eaedem	eīdem2 e͡idem ēīdem		eīsdem1 iīsdem īsdem	eīsdem1 iīsdem īsdem eābusdem	eīsdem1 iīsdem īsdem
Accusative	eundem eumdem	eandem eamdem	idem		eōsdem	eāsdem	eadem
Ablative	eōdem	eādem	eōdem		eīsdem1 iīsdem īsdem

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

Latin correlatives ^(edit)

type	demonstrative			anaphoric	identity	interrogative/ relative	indefinite					negative	other
	proximal	medial	distal				relative	indefinite	free choice	universal	negative polarity
basic	hic	iste, istic	ille, illic	is	ipse, īdem	quis/quī	quisquis, quīcumque	quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quispiam	quīvis, quīlibet	quisque	quisquam, ūllus, °aliquisquam	nēmō, nihil, nūllus	alius
dual						uter	utercumque	alteruter	utervīs, uterlibet	uterque		neuter	alter
place	hīc	istīc	illīc	ibī̆	ibī̆dem	ubī̆	ubiubi, ubī̆cumque	alicubī, uspiam	ubivīs, ubilibet	ubīque	usquam	nusquam, nūllibī	alibī, aliās
source	hinc	istinc	illinc	inde	indidem	unde	undecumque, undeunde	alicunde	°undelibet	undique			aliunde
destination	hūc, °hōrsum	istūc, °istōrsum	illūc, °illōrsum	eō	eōdem	quō, quōrsum	quōquō, quōcumque	aliquō, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum	quōvīs, quōlibet		quōquam	nusquam, nūllōrsum	aliō, aliōrsum
method, means, path, place	hāc	istāc	illāc	eā	eādem	quā	quāquā, quācumque	aliquā	quāvīs, quālibet	quāque		nēquāquam, haudquāquam	aliā
manner	hōc modō	istō modō	illō modō	ita, sīc, eō modō	item, itidem	ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum	utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque	quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō	quōmodolibet	utīque	ūllō modō	nūllō modō	aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō
time	num, nunc		ōlim	tum, tunc	simul	quandō, ‡cum	cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque	quondam, aliquandō	quandōlibet	quandōque	umquam	numquam	aliās
quantity				tam	†tamen, †tandem	quam	†quamquam	aliquam	quamvīs, quamlibet
size				tantus	tantusdem	quantus	quantuscumque	aliquantus	quantusvīs, quantuslibet
quality				tālis		quālis	quālis, quāliscumque	aliquālis	quālislibet
number				tot	totidem	quot	quotquot, quotcumque	aliquot	quotlibet
order				totus		quotus	quotuscumque	aliquotus	quotuslibet
repetition				totiēns		quotiēns	quotiēnscumque	aliquotiēns	quotiēnslibet
multiplication				totuplex		quotuplex
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated ° Rare ‡only used as a conjunction, not as an interrogative

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^[2], 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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈi.dẽj̃/ [ˈi.dẽɪ̯̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈi.dɐ̃j̃/ [ˈi.ðɐ̃j̃]

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): [ˈiɟem]

Verb

idem

1. first-person singular present of ísť