Idem

Word of the Day for Friday 24^th January 2014

Idem \AHY-dem, ID-em\, pronoun:

the same as previously given or mentioned.

Moreover, the EU presents a governance system where the authority of government is dispersed into multiple levels and institutions (idem, p. 20).
-- Giovanni Moro, Citizens in Europe, 2011

Indeed, if narrative identity is the identity of the characters associated with this leisure life-world, it is also the identity which links ipse and idem.
-- Tony Blackshaw, Leisure Life, 2003

Idem stems from the Latin word of the same spelling which meant essentially "it."

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