HIS, his
Sounds Like: HEES
Translations: (to) these, (for) these, (by) these, (with) these, (from) these
From the root: HIC
Part of Speech: Pronoun, Adjective
Explanation: The word "HIS" is an inflected form of the Latin demonstrative pronoun and adjective "HIC," meaning "this" or "these." Specifically, "HIS" serves as the dative and ablative plural form for all genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter). As a dative, it indicates the indirect object, meaning "to these" or "for these." As an ablative, it indicates separation, means, or accompaniment, translating to "by these," "with these," or "from these," depending on the context and any accompanying prepositions.
Inflection: Dative, Ablative, Plural, All genders
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
Polycarp of Smyrna
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, HIC.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- HAE — these, these (feminine), a these
- HAEC — this, these, she, her, it, they, them
- HANC — this, this one
- HARUM — of these, of them
- HAS — these, these (things), these (women)
- HI — these, those, they, them
- HIC — this, this man, this thing, he, here
- HOC — this, this thing, a this, (by) this, (with) this, (from) this
- HORUM — of these, of them
- HUIC — to this, for this, this one
- HUNC — this, this one
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