different between item vs idem

English

Etymology

From Middle English item, from Latin item (“also; in the same manner”). The present English meaning derives from a usage in lists, where the first entry would begin in primis (“firstly”) or imprimis, and the other entries with item (“also, moreover”). Later, people less familiar with Latin, seeing such lists, took the word "item" as meaning "a member of a list".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?t?m/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?a????m], [?a???m?]
• Hyphenation: item

Noun

item (plural items)

1. A distinct physical object.
2. (by extension, video games) An object that can be picked up for later use.
3. A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.

4. (psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.

5. A matter for discussion in an agenda.

6. (informal) Two people who are having a relationship with each other.
   • 2010, Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris, Baby

     Are we an item? Girl, quit playin' / "We're just friends," what are you sayin'?

7. A short article in a newspaper.

8. (obsolete) A hint; an innuendo.

   • A secret item was given to some of the bishops […] to absent themselves.

Synonyms

• (object): article, object, thing
• (line of text having a legal or semantic meaning):
• (matter for discussion): subject, topic
• (two people who are having a relationship with each other): couple
• (psychometrics): test/assessment question

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

item (third-person singular simple present items, present participle iteming, simple past and past participle itemed)

1. (transitive) To make a note of.

Related terms

• itemize

Adverb

item (not comparable)

1. likewise

Anagrams

• -time, METI, emit, it me, mite, time

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??t?m]

Adverb

item

1. (archaic) as well

   Synonyms: také, rovn?ž, dále, krom? toho

Further reading

• item in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• item in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Latin.

Adverb

item

1. same; in the same way

Further reading

• “item” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin item.

Adverb

item

1. (law) in the same way.

Etymology 2

From English item, from Latin item.

Noun

item m (invariable)

1. (computer science) A single programmed unit.
2. (linguistics) An element of a grammatical or lexical set.

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *éy and *só. Compare ita and itidem.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?i.tem/, [??t????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?i.tem/, [?i?t??m]

Adverb

item (not comparable)

1. just like (in a comparison)

Related terms

References

• item in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• item in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• item in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Etymology

From Latin item.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?t?m/

Adverb

item

1. also, and this.

References

• “item, adv. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Noun

item

1. the same; identical.

Descendants

• English: item
• Scots: eetem

References

• “item, adv. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Middle French

Etymology

Latin.

Adverb

item

1. same; in the same way

Old French

Etymology

Latin.

Adverb

item

1. same; in the same way

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin item (“also; in the same manner”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?i.t?m/, /?i.t??j?/
• Hyphenation: i?tem

Noun

item m (plural itens)

1. item
2. A matter for discussion in an agenda or elsewhere.

3. A line of text with some meaning.

English

Etymology

From Middle English idem, borrowed from Latin idem (“the same”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.d?m/, /?a?.d?m/

Adjective

idem (not comparable)

1. The same.

Usage notes

Used almost exclusively in footnotes of academic or scholarly papers, especially those of the legal profession, to indicate that the source or author referred to in a footnote is the same as in the preceding footnote; usually abbreviated when so used.

Derived terms

• id. or id
• idempotence, idempotent

Further reading

• idem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Demi, Diem, Dime, demi, demi-, dime, meid

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adverb

idem

1. idem, ditto

Anagrams

• meid

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin idem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.d?m/

Adverb

idem

1. idem, likewise

   Synonym: id.

Further reading

• “idem” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• demi, dîme

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.dem/
• Hyphenation: ì?dem

Adverb

idem

1. ditto, and so, likewise, also

Pronoun

idem

1. ditto, the same

Anagrams

• dime, medi

Latin

Alternative forms

• eidem (frequently in manuscripts and inscriptions)
• isdem, eisdem (rarely)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *izdim; equivalent to is (“he”) + Proto-Italic *-im (emphatic marker) (whence Sabellic *-om, Oscan ???????????????????????? (ísídum), ???????????????????????? (esídum)), from Proto-Indo-European *im (whence also Old Latin im, em), accusative singular of *éy (so both parts are from the same source). The s was lost and the i lengthened by compensatory lengthening.

When the ablative cases e?d, e?d became e?, e?, the true forms e?d-em, e?d-em were interpreted as e?-dem, e?-dem. The neuter nominative singular id-em is natural and gives earlier emem (= later eundem). The new marker -dem then served to create totidem, tantumdem, ib?dem, etc. Compare tam-en with its later doublet: tan-dem (? *tam-dem).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?i?.dem/, [?i?d????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?i.dem/, [?i?d??m]

Determiner

?dem (feminine eadem, neuter idem); demonstrative pronoun (with m optionally ? n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion

1. the same
   • 29 bc. Virgil. Georgics, III

     amor omnibus ?dem

     Love is the same for all

Declension

Irregular declension. Similar to the declension of is, ea, id.Demonstrative pronoun (with m optionally ? n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion.

¹The nom./dat./abl. plural forms regularly developed into a monosyllable /i?(s)/, with later remodelling - compare the etymology of deus. This /i?/ was normally spelled as EI during and as II after the Republic; a disyllabic i?, spelled II, I?, apears in Silver Age poetry, while disyllabic e?s is only post-Classical. Other spellings include EEI(S), EIEI(S), IEI(S).
²The dat. singular is found spelled EIEI (here represented as ??) and scanned as two longs in Plautus, but also as a monosyllable. The latter is its normal scansion in Classical. Other spellings include EEI, IEI.

Derived terms

• identidem
• identit?s (see there for further derivatives)

Related terms

References

• idem in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• idem in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• idem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?id?j?/

Pronoun

idem

1. (demonstrative) idem, ditto (the aforesaid, the same)

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

idem (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. first-person singular present of i?i