hice

Plural of house by analogy with mouse → mice, louse → lice.

• enPR: hīs, IPA^(key): /haɪs/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪs

hice

1. (humorous, nonstandard) plural of house

hice

1. (humorous) Pronunciation spelling of house, reflecting a certain posh British accent.
   • 1999 January 7, DAINTY H, “Do you get enough time to watch your favourite TV Shows?”, in alt.tv.road-rules‎^[1] (Usenet):

     NO YOU MEAN WON SPPAMMMMERRR I DONT LIEK YOU , I HAVE NO TELLY IN MY HICE(THATS
     HOW INGLISH PEEPLE SAY IT) SO I HAEV NO TIME TO WACH MY SHOWS TANKS FOR MAKEING ME
     FEEL LIKE DURT. BOO I HAET YOU!!!!!!!1111111111111!!!!!

• HEIC, Iche, chie, Eich

hice

1. alternative spelling of hais (“to lift up”)

• Henry, Edgar A. (2022) The Guyanese Slang Alphabet, Dorrance Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 61

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.

hice (feminine haece, neuter hoce)

1. Emphatic form of hic.
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia 13.18:

     Itinera quae per hosce annos in Italia per agros atque oppida civium Romanorum nostri imperatores fecerint, recordamini.

     Recall the tours our generals have carried out these years in Italy, through the lands and towns of Roman citizens.

hice m (feminine haece, neuter hoce)

1. Emphatic form of hic.
   • 170 BCE – c. 86 BCE, Accius, Didascalica 1.4:

     Num ergo aquila ita ut hice praedicant sciciderat pectus?

     Surely then an eagle did not tear apart his breast as these men declare?

   • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.16.4:

     Caecilii versus hice sunt.

     These are the lines of Caecilius.

Demonstrative pronoun.

• “hice”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• hicæ, hicae, yce, hyke

Unknown. Perhaps related to Old English *haccian (“to hack”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxi.ke/, [ˈhi.ke]

hice f

1. (A type of bird)

Weak feminine (n-stem):

• hicel
• hicemāse

• higera

• Middle English: *heke (attested in Middle English hekemose)
  • ⇒ English: hickmal, hickymal, hekkymal, hackmal, hagmal (“blue titmouse”) (dialectal)
  • ⇒? English: huckmuck (“long-tailed titmouse”) (dialectal)

• 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

hice

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of hacer