hic

Meaning

Det

this; these (in the plural)

Pron

this one; this (thing); these ones (in the plural); these (things); he, she, it

Adv

here, in or at this place

Concepts

here

this

that

he

👨

this one

Synonyms

is

hoc

haec

iste

ille

ea

id

ista

illa

heic

istud

hīc

illud

Translations

ici

hier

aquí

hier

deze

qui

este

questo

aqui

ce

acá

dit

dieser

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈhɪk]

Etymology

From older hec, from Proto-Italic *hoke, from *ho (from Proto-Indo-European *gʰo (“indeed”, emphatic clitic)) + *ke (from *ḱe (“here”, deictic particle)). Reconstructed forms with o are made likely by the Old Latin form hoi (“this”).
The feminine and neuter inflected forms were created in analogy to quī, quae, quod. In the Italic languages only Faliscan has a clear cognate inflected pronoun: hac (acc./abl. sg. f.). A petrified form may be present in the Umbrian word for "the same": eru-hu (abl. sg. m.), era-hunt ~ era-font (abl. sg. f.)
In Indo-European the first element is cognate with Sanskrit घ (gha) ~ ह (ha, intensifier), हि (hi, “surely, for”), Czech že (“that”, conjunction), Russian же (že, intensifying particle). The second element is cognate with Latin cis (“on this side”), ce-dō, Ancient Greek ἐ-κε-ῖνος (e-ke-înos, “that”), Old Irish cē (“here”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌼𐌰 (himma, “to this”). More at he, here.