ipso facto

ipso facto

English

Etymology

From Latin ipsō factō (“by the same fact”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɪpsəʊ ˈfæktəʊ/

Adverb

ipso facto (not comparable)

1. By that very fact itself; actually. Compare: eo ipso.
   • 1999 April, Bryan Caplan, "The Austrian Search for Realistic Foundations", in Southern Economic Journal, volume 65, number 4, page 833:

     For [Ludwig von] Mises or [Murray] Rothbard, it is simply confused to posit latent preferences; if two individuals fail to make an exchange, then this ipso facto demonstrates that at that moment at least one of them would not have benefited from the exchange.

Related terms

• per se

Translations

By that fact

Bulgarian: са́мо по се́бе си (sámo po sébe si) Czech: samo o sobě Finnish: itsessään French: ipso facto (fr) German: ipso facto (de) Italian: ipso facto Latin: ipso facto Spanish: ipso facto (es) Swedish: ipso facto, genom sakens natur Ukrainian: по фа́кту (po fáktu), наспра́вді (nasprávdi)

Further reading

• The Oxford English Dictionary (2007)
• ipso facto at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Italian

Alternative forms

• issofatto (vernacular)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ipsō factō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.pso ˈfak.to/, /ˈi.pso ˈfak.to/
• Rhymes: -akto
• Hyphenation: i‧pso‧fàc‧to, ì‧pso‧fàc‧to

Adverb

ipso facto

1. immediately

   lo cacciò ipso facto da casa sua ― he immediately kicked him out of his house

   Synonyms: immediatamente, issofatto, subito

2. (chiefly law) by that very fact itself; automatically, ipso facto

   Synonym: automaticamente

Further reading

• ipso facto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Spanish

Adverb

ipso facto

1. ipso facto