ens
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛnz
Etymology 1
From Late Latin ēns (“thing”), from esse (“to be”). See entity.
Noun
- (philosophy) An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute.
- 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, p. 41:
- Forms sphered in fire with trembling light array'd, / Ens without weight, and substance without shade […] .
- 1860, John Henry Macmahon, A treatise on metaphysics: chiefly in reference to revealed religion, page 195:
- the Nature of the Supreme Ens
- 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, p. 41:
- (chemistry, alchemy, now historical) Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; an essence, an active principle.
- 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow 2007, p. 245:
- Here he states that there are five ‘active principles’ – the five Enses or entia – that influence our bodies and give rise to disease […]
- 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow 2007, p. 245:
Etymology 2
Inflected forms.
Noun
ens
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Catalan
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Pronoun
ens (proclitic, enclitic nos, contracted enclitic 'ns)
- us (direct or indirect object)
Declension
Usage notes
- ens is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs.
- Ens visiten. ― They visit us.
Etymology 2
From Latin ēns (“being”); compare Spanish ente.
Pronunciation
Noun
ens m (invariable)
- organization, entity, institution
- ens públic
- public institution
- ens públic
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse eins, from Middle Low German eines.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ens
Pronoun
ens
Latin
Etymology
Formed as a present participle of sum (“to be”) in Medieval Latin (and therefore unknown in the Classical period) by using the bare present participial ending -ēns of second and third conjugation verbs, as an analogy to the Ancient Greek present participle ὤν (ṓn) which falsely appears to be the same bare suffix but etymologically corresponds to sōns, both from *h₁es- (“to be”). See also essentia for a similar formation.
The original present participle sōns had taken on the meaning "guilty" in the Classical period, but the still productive combining form -sēns present in the verbs absum (absēns (“absent”)) and praesum (praesēns (“present”)) was ignored in creating this form.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ens/, [ẽːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ens/, [ɛns]
Noun
ēns n (genitive entis); third declension
- (Medieval Latin) being
- 13th c., Boetius of Dacia
- Ens autem aeternum nullum sequitur in duratione; ergo mundus non est aeternus. - Nothing follows the Eternal Being (God) in duration; therefore, the world isn't eternal.
- 13th c., Boetius of Dacia
- essence
- existence
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ēns | entia |
Genitive | entis | entium |
Dative | entī | entibus |
Accusative | ēns | entia |
Ablative | entī | entibus |
Vocative | ēns | entia |
Descendants
Participle
ēns (genitive entis); third-declension one-termination participle
- being
Declension
Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | ēns | entēs | entia | ||
Genitive | entis | entium | |||
Dative | entī | entibus | |||
Accusative | entem | ēns | entēs entīs |
entia | |
Ablative | ente entī1 |
entibus | |||
Vocative | ēns | entēs | entia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
Derived terms
- entitās (Mediaeval Latin)
References
- “ens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ens 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)
- ens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle English
Adverb
ens
- Alternative form of enes
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French ens.
Preposition
ens
Mòcheno
Etymology
From Middle High German uns, from Old High German uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé. Cognate with German uns, English us; also Ancient Greek ἡμεῖς (hēmeîs), Sanskrit अस्मान् (asmān), Old Irish ar.
Pronoun
ens
- accusative of biar: us
References
- “ens” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Preposition
ens
Synonyms
Descendants
- Middle French: ens
Swedish
Adverb
ens
- even (negatively comparatively as in not even..., did you even [bother to]...)
- Var du ens född då?
- Were you even born then?
- Var du ens född då?
Derived terms
- inte ens (“not even...”)
Noun
ens
- (deprecated template usage) indefinite genitive singular of en
- alignment (cf. ensa, enslinje)
Derived terms
Pronoun
ens
Declension
Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
common | neuter | plural | |||||
singular | first | — | jag | mig, mej3 | min | mitt | mina |
second | — | du | dig, dej3 | din | ditt | dina | |
third | masculine (person) | han | honom, han2, en5 | hans | |||
feminine (person) | hon | henne, na5 | hennes | ||||
gender-neutral (person)1 | hen | hen, henom7 | hens | ||||
common (noun) | den | den | dess | ||||
neuter (noun) | det | det | dess | ||||
indefinite | man or en4 | en | ens | ||||
reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina | ||
plural | first | — | vi | oss | vår, våran2 | vårt, vårat2 | våra |
second | — | ni | er | er, eran2, ers6 | ert, erat2 | era | |
archaic | I | eder | eder, eders6 | edert | edra | ||
third | — | de, dom3 | dem, dom3 | deras | |||
reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina |
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