Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hic jacet

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hic -jacet
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An epitaph (gravestone inscription).

Archaic

Example Sentences

"What, in the precincts of the chapel-yard, / Among the knightly brasses of the graves, / And by the cold Hic Jacets of the dead!"
"Level with the floor of the middle aisle are brasses of a male and a female figure with a hic jacet inscription denoting that Thomas Rowley, merchant and sheriff, died 33 Jan. 1478 and Margaret his wife, died 1470."
"Presently, as I observed the wretched beings about me more closely, I perceived that they were all quite dead. Their bodies were so many living sepulchres. On each brutal brow was plainly written the hic jacet of a soul dead within."

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin hīc jacet (“here lies”).

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

hic jacets (plural)

Questions

What does hic jacet mean?: An epitaph (gravestone inscription).
Where does hic jacet come from?: Unadapted borrowing from Latin hīc jacet (“here lies”).

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