adverb
eādem
eādem (not comparable)
Meaning
- not comparableBy the same way, means
eadem ratione
by the same mannerc. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico VII.25 - not comparableAt the same time, likewise
In the readers how our graded readers gloss it
the same
eadem — in Seneca, ch. XIX
eādem, adv. abl. f., from idem, sc. viā, operā, or parte.
I. By the same way (rare):
ut ventum est in trivium, eadem qua ceteri fugere noluit, Cic. Div. 1, 54, 123: eadem revertens, Liv. 5, 46, 3: eadem et Romanos sequentes impetus rapit, id. 4, 33, 12.—II. Transf.
A. (Sc. operā, sometimes expressed, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 90; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 26; prop., by the same piece of work, i. e.) At the same time, likewise (ante-class.), Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 180 (cf. Brix. ad loc.) eādem ego ex hoc quae volo exquaesivero, id. Capt. 2, 2, 43. atque eādem mulieres apparebunt, id. Poen. 3, 3, 3.—
B. Repeated: eadem ... eadem, now ... now, at one time ... at another:
eadem biberis, eadem dedero tibi ubi biberis savium, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 49 (15).Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
eādem adv.
abl f. of īdem; sc. viā, by the same way : ventum est, eādem quā, etc.: revertens, L.: escendens descendensque, S. — At the same time, likewise , T.
Origins
From the ablative form of īdem (“the same”).