# ipso facto
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ipsō factō (“by the same fact”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌɪpsəʊ ˈfæktəʊ/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adverb

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.
** 2023 October 10, HarryBlank, “The Cruelest Fight”, in SCP Foundation‎, archived from the original on 31 August 2024:Intellectually, Ibanez had understood that there would be a lot of caverns. She'd once read that the Great Lakes, the largest freshwater bodies in the world, had a surface area of something like a quarter of a million square kilometres. The Mishepeshu were said to have used their tunnels to travel between the lakes and their islands. Ipso facto, there would be a lot of interior space down here. She'd patrolled some of it before. She'd seen it mapped by drones like the ones Nascimbeni had used. She should have been prepared.

#### Translations
### Adjective

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?

### See also

* per se

### Further reading

* “ipso facto, adv.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* “ipso facto”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## French
### Adverb

ipso facto
* ipso facto

### References

* “ipso facto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* issofatto (vernacular)

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ipsō factō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /i.pso ˈfak.to/, /ˈi.pso ˈfak.to/
* Rhymes: -akto
* Hyphenation: i‧pso‧fàc‧to, ì‧pso‧fàc‧to

### Adverb

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

* ipso facto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌibso ˈfaɡto/ [ˌiβ̞.so ˈfaɣ̞.t̪o]
* Syllabification: ip‧so fac‧to

### Adverb

ipso facto
* ipso facto

### Further reading

* “ipso facto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10