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itemEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
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, the members of lists were referred to as "items".
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Lewis’s Elementary Latin Dictionary
1890 American Book Company edition; pinned Perseus XML digitization010
MODERN ENTRY POINTS
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No reviewed record in this collection contains “item.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
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HISTORICAL FORMS
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 4
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Is fiendi simply the same lexical item as the noun fīant?
Not in the reviewed grammar. AWB analyzes fiendi as the present participle of fîên, while fîant / fîjant is a separate strong masculine noun; one gloss alignment remains textually ambiguous.
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Did hetzen begin as a modern political hate-speech verb?
No. The Middle High German dictionary centers the verb on driving dogs to hunt and already records transferred human conflict; Early New High German sources later make incitement explicit.
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Is hetzen simply the German verb for hate?
No as a synchronic definition, though the histories are related. Modern Duden distinguishes chase, hurry, and incitement senses; etymological sources connect the formation with Hass or hassen and the broader Germanic hate family.
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Are the chase, hurry, and incitement senses separate homonyms?
The reviewed dictionaries treat them as senses of one inherited verb. The semantic bridge from making quarry or people move under pressure to hurrying and inciting is historically plausible, though the dossier does not invent exact dates for every transition.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 0
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
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