Ipsissima verba

Ipsissima verba

Ipsissima verba, Latin for "the very words," is a legal term referring to material, usually established authority, that a writer or speaker is quoting or referring to. For example, "the lawyer's position on segregation is supported by the ipsissima verba of the Supreme Court's holding in Brown v. Board of Education."

Ipsissima verba is also the name of an album of the German band Samsas Traum.


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  • Ipsissima verba — (lat.), die eigensten Worte …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Ipsissima verba — Ipsissĭma verba (lat.), seine (ihre) eigenen Worte …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • ipsissima verba — [ip sis′i mə ver′bə, ip sis′i mə vʉr′bə] n. [L] the very words (of a person being quoted) …   English World dictionary

  • ipsissima verba — noun plural Etymology: New Latin, literally, the selfsame words Date: 1807 the exact language used by someone quoted …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • ipsissima verba — /ip sis si mah werdd bah/; Eng. /ip sis euh meuh verr beuh/, Latin. the very words; verbatim. * * * …   Universalium

  • ipsissima verba — ip|sịs|si|ma ver|ba 〈[ vɛ:r ]〉 seine eigenen Worte, genau diese Worte [lat.] * * * ip|sịs|si|ma vẹr|ba [lat.] (bildungsspr.): genau die eigenen (von einer Person gesprochenen) Worte: i. v. ... Jesu sind exakt von falschen Überlieferungen zu… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • ipsissima verba — ip|sịs|si|ma ver|ba 〈 [vẹr ] geh.〉 seine eigenen Worte, genau diese Worte [Etym.: lat.] …   Lexikalische Deutsches Wörterbuch

  • ipsissima verba — ip|sis|si|ma ver|ba [ v...] <lat. > völlig die eigenen Worte (einer Person, die sie gesprochen hat) …   Das große Fremdwörterbuch

  • ipsissima verba — (Latin) the very words, the exact words, the exact words used in something that is quoted …   English contemporary dictionary

  • ipsissima verba — [ɪpˌsɪsɪmə və:bə] plural noun the precise words. Origin from L …   English new terms dictionary

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