totidem

Latin

Etymology

From tot (so many) +‎ -dem (same).

Adjective

totidem (indeclinable)

  1. just as many, just so many, the same number (of)
    • 58-49 BCE, Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, volume I.48:
      equitum milia erant sex, totidem numero pedites []
      they had six thousand horsmen and the same number of footmen, []
  2. (comparatively, with quot or, rarely, atque) as many (as)

References

  • totidem”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • totidem”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • totidem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to translate literally, word for word (not verbo tenus): totidem verbis transferre