hice

See also: Hice and híce

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: hīs, IPA^(key): /haɪs/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪs

Noun

hice

1. (humorous, nonstandard) plural of house

Noun

hice

1. (humorous) Pronunciation spelling of house, reflecting a certain posh British accent.
   • 1999 January 7, DAINTY H, “Do you get enough time to watch your favourite TV Shows?”, in alt.tv.road-rules‎ (Usenet):

     NO YOU MEAN WON SPPAMMMMERRR I DONT LIEK YOU , I HAVE NO TELLY IN MY HICE(THATS
     HOW INGLISH PEEPLE SAY IT) SO I HAEV NO TIME TO WACH MY SHOWS TANKS FOR MAKEING ME
     FEEL LIKE DURT. BOO I HAET YOU!!!!!!!1111111111111!!!!!

Anagrams

• HEIC, Iche, chie, Eich

Guyanese Creole English

Verb

hice

1. alternative spelling of hais (“to lift up”)

References

• Henry, Edgar A. (2022), The Guyanese Slang Alphabet, Dorrance Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 61

Latin

Etymology

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.

Adjective

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.

Pronoun

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.

Declension

Demonstrative pronoun.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	hice	haece	hoce		hīce	haece
genitive	huiusce				hōrunce hōrumce	hārunce hārumce	hōrunce hōrumce
dative	huīce				hīsce
accusative	hunce	hance	hoce		hōsce	hāsce	haece
ablative	hōce	hāce	hōce		hīsce
vocative	—				—

References

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

Old English

Alternative forms

• hicæ, hicae, yce, hyke

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps related to Old English *haccian (“to hack”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxi.ke/, [ˈhi.ke]

Noun

hice f

1. (A type of bird)

Declension

Weak n-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	hice	hican
accusative	hican	hican
genitive	hican	hicena
dative	hican	hicum

Derived terms

• hicel
• hicemāse

Related terms

• higera

Descendants

• Middle English: *heke (attested in Middle English hekemose)
  • ⇒ English: hickmal, hickymal, hekkymal, hackmal, hagmal (“blue titmouse”) (dialectal)
  • ⇒? English: huckmuck (“long-tailed titmouse”) (dialectal)

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Verb

hice

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of hacer