ipse

== Interlingua == === Etymology === From Latin ipse. === Pronoun === ipse himself; herself; itself == Latin == === Alternative forms === ipsus (Old Latin) === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɪp.sɛ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈip.se] Hyphenation: ip‧se === Determiner === ipse (feminine ipsa, neuter ipsum or ipsud, no comparative, superlative ipsissimus or ipsimus); demonstrative determiner (pronominal declension) (emphatic) 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 ― just now; at this very time tum ipsum ― just now; at that very time exactly, precisely, just (with a numeral or for contrast) ==== Declension ==== Demonstrative determiner (pronominal declension). 1Medieval Latin. ==== Coordinate terms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “ipse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ipse”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. ipse in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016