substantia

Interlingua

Noun

substantia (plural substantias)

1. substance

Latin

Etymology

From substāns, present active participle of substō (“stand under; exist”), from sub + stō (“stand”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /subˈstan.ti.a/, [s̠ʊpˈs̠t̪än̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /subˈstan.t͡si.a/, [subˈst̪änt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

substantia f (genitive substantiae); first declension

1. substance, essence, material, contents
2. fortune, property, possessions

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	substantia	substantiae
Genitive	substantiae	substantiārum
Dative	substantiae	substantiīs
Accusative	substantiam	substantiās
Ablative	substantiā	substantiīs
Vocative	substantia	substantiae

Derived terms

• substantiola
• substantiālis
• substantīvus

 

Related terms

• stō
• substantiālitās
• substantīvālis
• substāns
• substō

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: substància
• Corsican: sustanza
• Dalmatian: sostuanza
• → Danish: substans
• → English: substance
• French: substance
• Friulian: sustance
• Galician: substancia
• Italian: sostanza
• → Old Irish: substaint
  • Irish: substaint
  • Scottish Gaelic: susbaint
• Occitan: substença
• Portuguese: sustança, sustância, substância
• Romanian: substanță
• → Russian: субста́нция (substáncija)
• Sardinian: sustanzia
• Spanish: substancia

References

• “substantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “substantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• substantia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• substantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.