medesimo

Italian

From earlier *metesimo, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus, from a previous form *metipsissimus, derived from Latin -met (emphatic suffix) + ipse (“himself”) + -issimus (superlative suffix).^[1] Cognate with French même, Spanish mismo, Portuguese mesmo.

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medesimo (feminine medesima, masculine plural medesimi, feminine plural medesime)

medesimo m (feminine medesima)

^ Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN, page 138
^ medesimo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)