ens

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See also: ENS, Ens., -ens, -eņš, and -ēns

English

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Etymology 1

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From Late Latin ēns (thing), from esse (to be). See entity.

Noun

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ens (plural enses or entia)

  1. (philosophy) An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute.
    • 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 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
  2. (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, published 2007, page 245:
      Here he states that there are five ‘active principles’ – the five Enses or entia – that influence our bodies and give rise to disease []
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Etymology 2

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Inflected forms.

Noun

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ens

  1. plural of en

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Pronoun

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ens (proclitic, enclitic nos, contracted enclitic 'ns)

  1. us (direct or indirect object)
Usage notes
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  • ens is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs.
    Ens visiten.They visit us.
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Latin ēns (being); compare Spanish ente.

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Noun

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ens m (invariable)

  1. entity, being
  2. organization, entity, institution
    ens públic
    public institution

Etymology 3

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Noun

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ens

  1. (traditional) plural of en (the letter N)

Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse eins, from Middle Low German eines.

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Adjective

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ens

  1. identical
  2. alike

Pronoun

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ens

  1. genitive of en

Latin

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Etymology

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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.

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Noun

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ēns n (genitive entis); third declension

  1. (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.
  2. essence
  3. existence

Declension

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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

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  • Albanian: ent
  • Italian: ente
  • Portuguese: ente
  • Spanish: ente

Participle

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ēns (genitive entis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. being

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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.

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References

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  • 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

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Adverb

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ens

  1. Alternative form of enes

Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French ens.

Preposition

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ens

  1. in; inside

Mòcheno

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Etymology

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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

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ens

  1. accusative of biar: us

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Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin intus.

Preposition

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ens

  1. in; inside

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Descendants

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  • Middle French: ens

Swedish

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Adverb

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ens

  1. even (negatively comparatively as in not even..., did you even [bother to]...)
    Var du ens född då?
    Were you even born then?

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Noun

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ens

  1. indefinite genitive singular of en
  2. alignment (cf. ensa, enslinje)

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Pronoun

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ens

  1. genitive of the indefinite pronoun man; one's

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Etymology

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Verb

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ens (Tifinagh spelling ⴻⵏⵙ)

  1. (intransitive, transative) to spend the night, to stay overnight (in a place)
  2. (intransitive, transative) to sleep over

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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  • Causative: sens (to lodge)
  • munsu (to dine)
    • Causative: smunsu (to invite to dinner)
    • amensi (dinner)
  • asensi (first day of a wedding)
  • tamensiwt (sleepover)
  • amnus (worry)