ipse
ips--e Vorlage:lat. „sich selbst“
Alternative forms
Etymology
Compounded from Proto-Indo-European *éy and *swé.
In Old Latin when both parts were inflected, a glide consonant p was inserted in the form *eum-sum, yielding eum-p-sum. From these accusative forms the stems -pso and -psā were extracted and adapted to the nominative forms, thus ipsus and eapsa. Ultimately the paradigm was assimilated to that of iste, ille, with only later in the history of Latin neuter ipsum becoming ipsud.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈip.se/, [ˈɪps̠ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈip.se/, [ˈipse]
- Hyphenation: ip‧se
Determiner
ipse (feminine ipsa, neuter ipsum); demonstrative pronoun (pronominal)
- (emphatic) himself, herself, itself, the very, the actual [ quotations ▼]
- specific reference to the chief, the leader, the one, etc., used to distinguish the principal person from the subordinates [ quotations ▼]
- in person
- for one's part, for his part, for her part
- alone, by oneself, by one's own accord, of one's own nature
- just (with an adverb of time)
- nunc ipsum ― just now; at this very time
- tum ipsum ― just now; at that very time
- exactly, precisely, just (with a numeral or for contrast)
Declension
Demonstrative pronoun (pronominal).
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | ipse | ipsa | ipsum | ipsī | ipsae | ipsa | |
| Genitive | ipsī̆us | ipsōrum | ipsārum | ipsōrum | |||
| Dative | ipsī | ipsīs | |||||
| Accusative | ipsum | ipsam | ipsum | ipsōs | ipsās | ipsa | |
| Ablative | ipsō | ipsā | ipsō | ipsīs | |||
It follows the pronominal declension