phrase · masculine
eccum
eccum m (feminine eccam, plural eccōs, feminine plural eccās)
Classical[ˈɛk.kũː]Ecclesiastical[ˈɛk.kum]
Meaning
- masculinethere or here I am/you are/he is; here I come/you come/he comes; here is, see here
Sed quid ego video? — Quid vides? — Nescio quis eccum incedit
c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 4.6.65–66 - masculineI am/you are/he is there or here; I am/you are/he is come; here is, see here
Quem tu parasitum quaeris, adulescens, meum? — Peniculum. — Eccum in vidulo salvom fero.
c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 285–286Milphio, heus, ubi es? — Assum apud te, eccum.
c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 1.2.71
eccum, eccos, v. ecce, II. D.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
eccum, eccos see ecce.
Origins
Ellipsis and contraction of ecce eum vidē (literally “see him come” or “see him here”) or like addresses.
Italo-Romance
- Italianecco
- Italianvecco
- Italianvecchelo
- Judeo-Italianאיקו
- Sicilianeccu
Insular Romance
- Sardinianeccu
Gallo-Romance
- Old Occitanec
- Old Occitanvec
- Old Occitanbec
- Old Occitanbeg
- Old Occitanbet
- Old Occitanbeps