essentia
Latin
Etymology
Analogical formation based on esse (“to be”), present active infinitive of sum (“I am”), coined to translate Ancient Greek οὐσία (ousía).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /esˈsen.ti.a/, [ɛs̠ˈs̠ɛn̪t̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /esˈsen.t͡si.a/, [esˈsɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
Noun
essentia f (genitive essentiae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | essentia | essentiae |
Genitive | essentiae | essentiārum |
Dative | essentiae | essentiīs |
Accusative | essentiam | essentiās |
Ablative | essentiā | essentiīs |
Vocative | essentia | essentiae |
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: есе́нция (eséncija)
- → Czech: esence
- → Danish: essens
- → Dutch: essentie
- English: essence
- Esperanto: esenco
- French: essence
- Galician: esencia
- → German: Essenz
- → Hungarian: eszencia
- Italian: essenza
- → Maltese: essenza
- → Polish: esencja
- Portuguese: essência
- Romanian: esență
- → Russian: эссе́нция (essɛ́ncija)
- → Serbo-Croatian: есѐнција, esèncija
- → Slovak: esencia
- → Slovene: esenca
- Spanish: esencia
- → Swedish: essens
References
- “essentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- essentia 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)
- essentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.