mateix
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Catalan mateix~meteix, from Early Medieval Latin metipse, from Latin -met + ipse. Compare Occitan meteis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈteʃ]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [maˈtejʃ]
Audio (Barcelona): (file) - Rhymes: -ejʃ
Adjective
[edit]mateix (feminine mateixa, masculine plural mateixos, feminine plural mateixes)
- serves as an intensifier in the same manner that in English would be performed by the appropriate reflexive pronoun (myself, himself, themselves, etc.)
- Vostè mateix és responsable d'aquest desastre.
- You yourself are responsible for this disaster.
- El Sant Grial només pot ser tocat pels sants mateixos.
- The Holy Grail may only be touched by the saints themselves.
- 2019 February 13, Jan Fleischer, Time Out Barcelona[1], page 7, column Fight!:
- La meva bitmoji s'assembla més a mi que jo mateixa.
- My bitmoji looks more like me than I do.
Usage notes
[edit]- As an adjective, mateix is placed after the noun it modifies.
Determiner
[edit]mateix m (feminine mateixa, masculine plural mateixos, feminine plural mateixes)
- same (identical)
- Vam néixer el mateix dia.
- We were born on the same day.
- same (similar)
- (between a possessive pronoun and a noun) own
- El seu mateix pare no va creure el seu relat.
- Her own father did not believe her tale.
Usage notes
[edit]- As a determiner, mateix is placed before the noun it modifies.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “mateix” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Further reading
[edit]- “mateix” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mateix”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “mateix” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
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