hice

hice

See also: Hice and híce

English

Etymology

Incorrect plural of house by analogy with mouse → mice, louse → lice.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hīs, IPA^(key): /haɪs/
• Rhymes: -aɪs

Noun

hice

1. (chiefly humorous) plural of house

Anagrams

• Eich, chie

---

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *hek(e); see hic for more. Seemingly the more archaic form, retained rarely in Classical Latin as an emphatic variant and reanalysed as hic +‎ -ce.

Adjective

hice (feminine haece, neuter hoce)

1. Emphatic form of hic.
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia 13.18:

     Itinera quae per hosce annos in Italia per agros atque oppida civium Romanorum nostri imperatores fecerint, recordamini.

     Recall the tours our generals have carried out these years in Italy, through the lands and towns of Roman citizens.

Pronoun

hice m (feminine haece, neuter hoce)

1. Emphatic form of hic.
   • 170 BCE – c. 86 BCE, Accius, Didascalica 1.4:

     Num ergo aquila ita ut hice praedicant sciciderat pectus?

     Surely then an eagle did not tear apart his breast as these men declare?

   • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.16.4:

     Caecilii versus hice sunt.

     These are the lines of Caecilius.

Declension

Demonstrative pronoun.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	hice	haece	hoce		hīce	haece
Genitive	huiusce				hōrunce hōrumce	hārunce hārumce	hōrunce hōrumce
Dative	huīce				hīsce
Accusative	hunce	hance	hoce		hōsce	hāsce	haece
Ablative	hōce	hāce	hōce		hīsce

References

• “hice”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

---

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈiθe/ [ˈi.θe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈise/ [ˈi.se]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -iθe
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -ise
• Syllabification: hi‧ce
• Homophone: ice

Verb

hice

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of hacer