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出典:『Wiktionary』 (2026/04/30 22:52 UTC 版)
Inherited from Proto-Italic *e(s)peso, a compound pronoun whose p sound has an origin difficult to trace.
The p sound is traditionally explained as follows. In Old Latin when both parts were inflected, an epenthetic consonant, p, was inserted in the form *eum-sum, yielding *eum-p-sum. From these accusative forms the stems -pso and -psā were extracted and adapted to the nominative forms, thus *ipsus and *eapsa. Ultimately the paradigm was assimilated to that of iste, ille, with only later in the history of Latin neuter ipsum becoming ipsud.
De Vaan argues that the p need not necessarily be epenthetic, but instead it may be the particle -pe.
ipse (feminine ipsa, neuter ipsum or ipsud, no comparative, superlative ipsissimus or ipsimus); demonstrative determiner (pronominal declension)
Demonstrative determiner (pronominal declension).
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | ipse | ipsa | ipsum ipsud |
ipsī | ipsae | ipsa | |
| genitive | ipsī̆us | ipsōrum | ipsārum | ipsōrum | |||
| dative | ipsī | ipsīs | |||||
| accusative | ipsum | ipsam | ipsum ipsud |
ipsōs | ipsās | ipsa | |
| ablative | ipsō | ipsā | ipsō | ipsīs | |||
| vocative | — | — | |||||
Medieval Latin.