hice

Plural of house by analogy with mouse → mice, louse → lice.

• enPR: hīs, IPA^(key): /haɪs/

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• Rhymes: -aɪs

hice

1. (chiefly humorous, nonstandard) plural of house

• Eich, chie

From Proto-Italic *hek(e); see hic for more. Seemingly the more archaic form, retained rarely in Classical Latin as an emphatic variant and reanalysed as hic +‎ -ce.

hice (feminine haece, neuter hoce)

1. Emphatic form of hic.
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia 13.18:

     Itinera quae per hosce annos in Italia per agros atque oppida civium Romanorum nostri imperatores fecerint, recordamini.

     Recall the tours our generals have carried out these years in Italy, through the lands and towns of Roman citizens.

hice m (feminine haece, neuter hoce)

1. Emphatic form of hic.
   • 170 BCE – c. 86 BCE, Accius, Didascalica 1.4:

     Num ergo aquila ita ut hice praedicant sciciderat pectus?

     Surely then an eagle did not tear apart his breast as these men declare?

   • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.16.4:

     Caecilii versus hice sunt.

     These are the lines of Caecilius.

Demonstrative pronoun.

• “hice”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈiθe/ [ˈi.θe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈise/ [ˈi.se]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -iθe
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -ise
• Syllabification: hi‧ce
• Homophone: ice

hice

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of hacer