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literatim

literatim

1 9.9
In exactly the same words without any change
  • adverb
  • /ˌlɪtəˈreɪtɪm/
  • Archaic
: literalmente
  • She translated the passage literatim rather than paraphrasing it.

Examples

  • The secretary copied the speech literatim from the original manuscript.

  • The court record was reproduced literatim for accuracy during the appeal.

  • Please repeat the instructions literatim.

  • The professor quoted the text literatim in his lecture.

  • The professor quoted the text literatim in his lecture.

  • The court record was reproduced literatim for accuracy during the appeal.

  • She translated the passage literatim rather than paraphrasing it.

Synonyms

word for word
vsliteratim
33 3.5

Using exactly the same words as the original

goes beyond words to include letter by letter exactness and speech
verbatim
vsliteratim
25 6.0

Using exactly the same words as were first said

includes letter by letter exactness and covers written and spoken forms

How Exact

literatim
  • Archaic
1 9.9
closely
257 1.0
approximately
471 3.2
roughly
393 1.6

Surface Forms

literatim positive

Etymology

The word literatim comes from the Latin littera meaning 'letter' and the ending -atim meaning 'by'. The same root is in the English words letter and literal, so literatim originally meant 'by the letters' and today it means 'word for word' or 'exactly as written'.