interjection
eccerē
eccerē
Classical[ˈɛk.kɛ.reː]Ecclesiastical[ˈɛt.t͡ʃe.re]
Meaning
- there!, would you look at that!, what do you know?, here we go (calling attention to an event as a cause of some emotion)
eccĕre or ĕcĕre, interj. ecce and abl. of res, see there in fact! lo in truth! Corss. Aussp. 2, 858, 1028; cf. Ribbeck, Partik., p. 43 sq.; not from Ceres, but cf. Ussing ad Plaut. Am. 550, an exclamation of surprise, like Engl.
I. there! (emphatic, only in the foll. passages): Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 4; id. Casin. 2, 6, 34; id. Men. 2, 3, 50; id. Trin. 2, 2, 105; id. Pers. 2, 4, 29; Ter. Ph. 2, 2, 5 (but in Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 52: ecce autem, Fleck. Lorenz).
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
eccerē interj.
ecce + rem, look! lo! there! T.
Origins
Univerbation of ecce (“look!”, interjection) + rē (“in fact”), ablative singular of rēs.