tutemet
Latin
Etymology
From tūte (“yourself”) + -met (“self”), adding emphasis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtuː.tɛ.mɛt]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt̪uː.t̪e.met̪]
Pronoun
tūtemet
- emphatic form of tū (you), you yourself
- c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 1.102:
- Tutemet a nobis iam quovis tempore vatum
terriloquis victus dictis desciscere quaeres.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Tutemet a nobis iam quovis tempore vatum
Declension
Pronominal declension with -met suffix.
singular | |
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nominative | tūtemet |
genitive | tuīmet |
dative | tibimet |
accusative | temet |
ablative | temet |
vocative | tūtemet |
References
- “tutemet”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tutemet”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tutemet in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.