passim
English
WOTD – 2 January 2007
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpæsɪm/
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Usage notes
Used especially in citations, often with simply the name of a book or writer, to indicate that something (as a word, phrase, or idea) is to be found at many places throughout the section, book, or writings of the author cited.
Quotations
- 1751, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals:
- The sceptics assert [Sext. Emp. adrersus Math. lib. viii.], though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects, as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind. This is also the common reason assigned by historians, for the deification of eminent heroes and legislators [Diod. Sic. passim.].
- 1978 — Supreme Court of the United States, F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation
- See also Hearings on H.R.8825 before the House Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 70th Cong., 1st Sess., passim (1928).
Translations
Latin
Adverb
passim (not comparable)
- everywhere
- here and there, hither and thither; (at or to different places)
- without distinction, without order, randomly
- Synonym: prōmiscē
- mindlessly, without thinking about it
- Synonym: temere
Descendants
- English: passim
References
- “passim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “passim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- passim in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2023) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- passim in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- passim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- far and wide; on all sides; everywhere: longe lateque, passim (e.g. fluere)
- far and wide; on all sides; everywhere: longe lateque, passim (e.g. fluere)
Spanish
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