egomet

egomet

Latin

Etymology

From ego meaning "I" + -met adding emphasis and "self".

Pronoun

egomet

1. I myself

   Quis te verberavit? - Egomet memet, qui nunc sum domi.

   Who beat you? - I myself beat me myself, I who now am at the house.

   Donec Sosia illic - egomet - fecit sibi uti crederem.

   Until that Sosia - my own self - made himself so that I should believe.

Derived terms

• proximus egomet mihi

References

• egomet in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• egomet in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• egomet in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette