hice
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Etymology ===
Plural of house by analogy with mouse → mice, louse → lice.
=== Pronunciation ===
enPR: hīs, IPA(key): /haɪs/
Rhymes: -aɪs
=== Noun ===
hice
(humorous, nonstandard) plural of house
=== Noun ===
hice
(humorous) Pronunciation spelling of house, reflecting a certain posh British accent.
=== Anagrams ===
HEIC, Iche, chie, Eich
== Guyanese Creole English ==
=== Verb ===
hice
alternative spelling of hais (“to lift up”)
=== References ===
Henry, Edgar A. (2022), The Guyanese Slang Alphabet, Dorrance Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 61
== Latin ==
=== Etymology ===
From Proto-Italic *hek(e); see hic for more. Seemingly the more archaic form, retained rarely in Classical Latin as an emphatic variant and reanalysed as hic + -ce.
=== Adjective ===
hice (feminine haece, neuter hoce)
Emphatic form of hic.
=== Pronoun ===
hice m (feminine haece, neuter hoce)
Emphatic form of hic.
==== Declension ====
Demonstrative pronoun.
=== References ===
“hice”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
== Old English ==
=== Alternative forms ===
hicæ, hicae, yce, hyke
=== Etymology ===
Unknown. Perhaps related to Old English *haccian (“to hack”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈxi.ke/, [ˈhi.ke]
=== Noun ===
hice f
(A type of bird)
==== Declension ====
Weak n-stem:
==== Derived terms ====
hicel
hicemāse
==== Related terms ====
higera
==== Descendants ====
Middle English: *heke (attested in Middle English hekemose)
⇒ English: hickmal, hickymal, hekkymal, hackmal, hagmal (“blue titmouse”) (dialectal)
⇒? English: huckmuck (“long-tailed titmouse”) (dialectal)
== Spanish ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈiθe/ [ˈi.θe] (Spain)
IPA(key): /ˈise/ [ˈi.se] (Latin America, Philippines)
Rhymes: -iθe (Spain)
Rhymes: -ise (Latin America, Philippines)
Syllabification: hi‧ce
Homophone: ice
=== Verb ===
hice
first-person singular preterite indicative of hacer