different between terms vs tecum

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??mz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?mz/

Noun

terms

1. plural of term

Verb

terms

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of term

Anagrams

• ERTMS

Swedish

Noun

terms

1. indefinite genitive singular of term

English

Noun

tecum (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of tucum

Latin

Etymology

From Latin t? (“you”) + cum (“with”).

Two, not necessarily mutually exclusive explanations have been offered:

The first explanation was offered by Cicero, who believed that the normal word order of cum n?b?s "with us" would sound too much like cunn? bis "twice in the cunt", so the words were reversed. This reversal was then applied to cum v?b?s, cum m?, cum t?, and cum s?.

A modern explanation is that the word ordering comes from the fact that in Proto-Indo-European the word *?óm (from which cum derives) was an adverb, not a preposition as it became in Latin. As such the *kom could appear before or after the object pronoun since it was the object of the verb, not the object of a preposition. As these special particles evolved into prepositions this word order became archaic even though it was still commonly used. Thus the contraction n?b?scum (and m?cum, etc.) evolved into an adverb in its own right.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /?te?.kum/, [?t?e?k???]

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?te.kum/, [?t???kum]

Adverb

t?cum (not comparable)

1. with you, with thee

Descendants

• Asturian: tigo
• Emilian: têg
• Italian: teco
• Old Portuguese: tigo
  • Galician: contigo
  • Portuguese: contigo
• Spanish: contigo

See also

• m?cum
• n?biscum
• s?cum
• qu?cum
• quibuscum
• qu?cum
• qu?cum
• v?biscum

References

• tecum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tecum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tecum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• tecum in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly