egomet

Latin

Etymology

From ego (“I”) +‎ -met (“-self”, intensive suffix).

Pronoun

egomet

1. I myself
   • c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 2.1.607:

     Quis tē verberāvit? —Egomet mēmet, quī nunc sum domī.

     Who has beaten you? —I myself, who am now at home, beat myself.

   • c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 2.1.598:

     Dōnec Sōsia illic egomet fēcit sibi utī crēderem.

     Until that Sosia—my own self—made it so I would believe him.

Derived terms

• proximus egomet mihi

References

• egomet in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• egomet in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• egomet in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette