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ce

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What it meant

-cĕ — Lewis & Short

-cĕ, an inseparable strengthening demonstrative particle, answering etymol. to the Gr. ge/ (Sanscr. ki; cf. Lat. ci-s and citra), and in signif. to the demonstr. i (in ou(tosi/, touti/, etc.), appended to words in different forms.

I Unchanged ce: hicce, haecce, hocce; also in MSS. and inscriptions one c: hice, etc.; plur.: hice, haece, haecce; gen. hujusce, etc.—

II Changed,

A Into ci before the interrog. particle ne: hiccine, hoccine, siccine, nunccine, etc. (v. hic, sic, nunc, etc.).—

B By a rejection of e, in hic, haec, hoc, nunc, etc. for hice, haece, hoce, nunce, etc.; illic, istic, nunc, sic (for illice, etc.); cf. Zumpt, Gram. § 132; Corss. Ausspr II. p. 235.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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