ecce hoc

From ecce (“behold, voilà”) +‎ hoc (“this”). Found beginning in the fourth century CE, notably in Augustine.[1]

ecce hoc (Late Latin)

1. this (emphatic)
   • 354 CE – 430 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, In Psalmum 25 enarratio 2 (sermo ad plebem) :

     Et ecce hoc est deponere veterem hominem, et induere novum: Quapropter, deponentes mendacium, loquimini veritatem, unusquisque cum proximo suo: quia sumus invicem membra.

     And this is to shed the old self and put on the new self. Therefore, as you put away lying, speak the truth, each to your neighbour, for we are members (of one body) to each other (Ephesians 4:25).

• ecce hīc
• *eccum hoc

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “hŏc”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 442