item — Logoi (Latin)

Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 11s 1 · 50.51/10k
De Architectura 206 · 35.72/10k
Naturalis Historia 1,006 · 25.38/10k
Divus Claudius 7 · 23.58/10k
De agri cultura 36 · 23.01/10k
De Regibus 1 · 22.57/10k
Utrum Pater Et Filius Ac Spiritus Sanctus De Divinitate Substantialiter Praedicentur Liber 1 · 18.73/10k
Noctes Atticae 201 · 17.97/10k
Antoninus Geta 2 · 16.26/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 9 · 14.87/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 4 · 13.77/10k
Ad Martyras 2 · 13.44/10k

Densest 12 of 200 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ĭtem — Lewis & Short

ĭtem, adv.i- (cf. is) and -tam, acc. fem. corresponding to tum (is), -tud; cf. tam; Sanscr. ittham, so.

I Implying comparison, just so, in like manner, after the same manner, likewise, also (cf.: ita, pariter, eodem modo): proinde eri ut sint, ipse item sit, Plaut. Am. 3, 3, 5: quia mi item ut parentes lucis das tuendi copiam, id. Capt. 5, 4, 11: utinam item a principio rei pepercisses meae, ut nunc repercis saviis, id. Truc. 2, 4, 24: placuit Scaevolae et Coruncanio, itemque ceteris, Cic. Leg. 2, 21, 52: item igitur si sine divinatione non potest, id. Div. 2, 52, 107: ita fit, ut non item in oratione, ut in versu numerus exstet, id. Or. 60: fecisti item uti praedones solent, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 9, § 21: item ... quemadmodum, etc., id. ib. 2, 2, 22, § 54: item ... quasi murteta juncis, item ego vos virgis circumvinciam, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 27; Liv. 39, 19: item ... atque, Varr. L. L. 9, 4; Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 71: parentes vagitu suo paene bis prodidit: semel, cum a nutricis ubere, item cum a sinu matris raptim auferretur, Suet. Tib. 6.—

B Esp.: non item, but not: spectaculum uni Crasso jucundum, ceteris non item, Cic. Att. 2, 21, 4: corporum offensiones sine culpa accidere possunt, animorum non item, id. Tusc. 4, 14, 31: in libero servant, in libera non item, id. N. D. 2, 24, 62. —

II Introducing something additional, without comparison, likewise, besides, also, further, moreover (cf.: etiam, quoque): postquam amans accessit unus et item alter, Ter. And. 1, 1, 49: Ariovistus respondit, jus esse belli, ut, etc.: item populum Romanum victis non ad alterius praescriptum imperare, etc., Caes. B. G. 1, 36: legionem Caesar constituit ... item equites Ariovisti pari intervallo constiterunt, id. ib. 1, 43 init.: Romulus augur cum fratre item augure, Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107: ille res in Africa gessit: itemque Mago, ejus frater, Nep. Han. 7, 1: ut recessit, sic accessit et abscessit, item, incessit, Varr. L. L. p. 87 Müll.; so in enumerating, next, again: item ... tertio ... quarto ..., Varr. R. R. 1, 16, 3: semel ... item, Suet. Tib. 6; id. Claud. 4.

In the wild

6 of 2,617 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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