єство
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately a calque of Ancient Greek οὐσία (ousía). Either a contraction of earlier Old Ruthenian естество (estestvo) or Old Church Slavonic естество (estestvo), compare Old Church Slavonic ество (estvo), or most likely constructed later analogously to these forms: є (je) + -ство (-stvo).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]єство́ • (jestvó) n inan (genitive єства́, uncountable) (literary, philosophy)
- nature, being, ousia
- essence, quintessence
- Synonyms: квінтесе́нція (kvinteséncija), суть (sutʹ), су́тність (sútnistʹ)
- living being
Declension
[edit]Declension of єство́ (inan sg-only hard neut-form accent-b)
Further reading
[edit]- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “єство”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2023), “єство”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–14 (а – префере́нція), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka; Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
- “єство”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)
- “єство”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
- “єство”, in Словник.ua [Slovnyk.ua] (in Ukrainian)
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- Ukrainian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Ukrainian terms inherited from Old Ruthenian
- Ukrainian terms derived from Old Ruthenian
- Ukrainian terms derived from Old Church Slavonic
- Ukrainian terms suffixed with -ство
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- Ukrainian hard neuter-form accent-b nouns
- Ukrainian nouns with accent pattern b