mesme
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Interlingua
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish mismo, French même, Galician mesmo, Italian medesimo, Portuguese mesmo. From Vulgar Latin *metipsimus, from Classical Latin -met + ipse + -issimus.
Adjective
[edit]mesme
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French mesme.
Adjective
[edit]mesme m or f (plural mesmes)
- (the) same
Adverb
[edit]mesme
- even
- 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais:
- Et de ces viles ames de bouffons il s'en est trouvé qui n'ont voulu abandonner leur gaudisserie en la mort mesme
- And of these vile idiots there are even some who didn't want to give up their luxuries, even for death
Descendants
[edit]- French: même (see there for further descendants)
Norman
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- même (Jersey, continental Normandy)
Etymology
[edit]From Old French meïsme, mesme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus, from Latin -met (intensifier) + ipse (“him/her/itself”) + -issimus (superlative ending).
Adjective
[edit]mesme m or f
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Simplification of early Old French meïsme < Vulgar Latin *metipsimus, from Latin -met (intensifier) + ipse (“him/her/itself”) + -issimus (superlative ending).
Adjective
[edit]mesme m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mesme)
- (the) same
- used for emphasis
- toi mesme
- you
Descendants
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