istic

From iste + -ce.

• isthic (used in Late Latin, Medieval Latin, formerly in New Latin)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪsˈtɪk]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [isˈt̪ik]

istic (feminine istaec, neuter istuc or istucce or istoc); demonstrative pronoun

1. this same, this very; those, etc.
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 456:

     SĪMŌ: Ego istaec rēctē ut fīant vīderō.

     SIMO: I will see to it that those [things] are done correctly.

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 923–924:

     CRĪTŌ: Atticus quīdam ōlim nāvī frāctā ad Andrum ēiectus est / et istaec ūna parva virgō.

     CRITO: There was once a certain [man from] Attica who was shipwrecked and cast ashore at Andros, [along with] this same [woman]: [at that time, she was just] a little girl.
     (Crito tells the backstory of Glycerium, who is “Andria,” “The Andrian,” or “The Woman from Andros,” for whom the play is named.)

2. that of yours, that beside you

Demonstrative pronoun.

See illic § Declension.

• The best-attested forms are the singular nominative, accusative, and ablative forms, and the plural neuter nominative/accusative form (also the plural feminine nominative). The alternative spelling isthic is based on the interpretation of the pronoun as a compound of iste + hic, an analysis that can be found in Latin grammarians such as Priscian^[1] (although Priscian used the spelling without "h", attributing the loss of the h to the syllabification of the word^[2]). Originally, it is likely that any form of iste could be freely combined with the enclitic -ce, but only a few traces of that usage are preserved. The original usage of Old Latin authors such as Plautus or Terence may be obscured in some cases by alterations made by later scribes.
• The feminine ablative singular istāc has an alternative form istāce, attested once in a ritual formula transmitted by Cato De Agri Cultura 132.
• The masculine accusative plural istōsce is attested indirectly in the form istōscine (from istōsce + -ne) in Plautus Asinaria 932.^[3][4] The corresponding feminine accusative plural istāsce is not directly attested, although some editors conjecture it was originally used in Plautus Truculentus 541.
• The masculine nominative plural is likely unattested in extant ancient texts. (The TLL interprets the manuscript variant istīc for istī in Plautus Curculio 288^[5] as a false form.^[4])
• The genitive plural is unattested.
• The ablative plural form istīsce is attested twice in Plautus, in both instances elided before a vowel.
• Plautus and Terence use the neuter forms istuc n sg and istaec n pl much more frequently than their unsuffixed counterparts, istud n sg and ista n pl.^[6]

istic (feminine istaec, neuter istuc or istucce or istoc); demonstrative pronoun

1. this same, this very
2. that of yours

Declined like the determiner.

From the lost locative neuter singular of the above pronoun, compare hīc and illīc.

• (Old Latin or archaic) istī

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪs.tɪk]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈis.t̪ik]

istīc (not comparable)

1. there, in that (very) place, here (particularly used in direct speech to address the place of one being talked to)
2. (figuratively) herein, in this affair, on this occasion, on that side

• istic in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• istic in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Allen, Joseph Henry, Greenough, James B. (1903) Allen and Greenough's New Latin grammar for schools and colleges: founded on comparative grammar, Boston: Ginn and Company, § 146, page 67.
• G. T. A. Krüger, Grammatik der Lateinischen Sprache. Erste Abtheilung. Elementar- und Wortlehre. Elementar- und Wortlehre. Neue, gänzlich umgearbeitete Ausgabe der lateinischen Schulgrammatik von Aug. Grotefend, Hannover, 1842, page 263
• Maurus Schinnagl, Lateinische Schulgrammatik für die zweite, dritte und vierte Klasse des Untergymnasiums, Wien, 1853, page 79
• G. Billroth and for the third edition Friedrich Ellendt, Lateinische Schulgrammatik. Dritte Ausgabe, Leipzig, 1848, page 112
• Peter Bullions, revised by Charles D. Morris, The Principles of Latin Grammar, comprising the substance of the most approved grammar extant, with an appendix and complete index. For the use of schools and colleges, New York, 1867, page 70f.
• Peter Bullions, Principles of Latin Grammar; comprising the substance of the most approved grammar extant, with an appendix. For the use of schools and colleges, New York, 1854, page 77
• Lewis Marcus, A Latin Grammar, London, 1861, page 26
• John Smith, The New Hampshire Latin Grammar: comprehending all the necessary rules in orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody; with explanatory and critical notes, and an appendix, Boston, 1802, page 36