ipso facto
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin ipsō factō (“by the same fact”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɪpsəʊ ˈfæktəʊ/
Audio (US): (file)
Adverb
[edit]ipso facto (not comparable)
- By that very fact itself; actually.
- Coordinate term: eo ipso
- 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope at His House Party”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 94:
- Cope was not long in feeling him as operating on the unconscious assumption—unconscious, and therefore all the more damnable—that the young man in business constituted, ipso facto, a kind of norm by which other young men in other fields of endeavor were to be gauged: […]
- 1999 April, Bryan Caplan, “The Austrian Search for Realistic Foundations”, in Southern Economic Journal, volume 65, number 4, page 833:
- For [Ludwig von] Mises or [Murray] Rothbard, it is simply confused to posit latent preferences; if two individuals fail to make an exchange, then this ipso facto demonstrates that at that moment at least one of them would not have benefited from the exchange.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]By that fact
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Adjective
[edit]ipso facto (not comparable)
- Being such by itself, or by its own definition; inherent.
- 1984 April 14, Richard Knisely, “Quintessential Narcissism”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
- Is not the reading of another's diary an ipso facto act of voyeurism?
Further reading
[edit]- The Oxford English Dictionary (2007)
- “ipso facto”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French
[edit]Adverb
[edit]References
[edit]- “ipso facto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- issofatto (vernacular)
Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin ipsō factō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ipso facto
- immediately
- Synonyms: immediatamente, issofatto, subito
- lo cacciò ipso facto da casa sua ― he immediately kicked him out of his house
- (chiefly law) by that very fact itself; automatically, ipso facto
- Synonym: automaticamente
Further reading
[edit]- ipso facto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish
[edit]Adverb
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ipso facto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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