evidentia

Interlingua

Etymology

From English evidence, Spanish evidencia, French évidence, Portuguese evidência and Italian evidenza, all from Latin ēvidentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.viˈden.t͡sja/, /-sja/, /-tja/

Noun

evidentia (plural evidentias)

1. (chiefly uncountable) evidence

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin evidens

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin evidentia

Coined by Cicero, from ēvidēns +‎ -ia. Via Proto-Indo-European *weyd- cognate with Russian свиде́тельство (svidételʹstvo).

Noun

ēvidentia f (genitive ēvidentiae); first declension

1. evidence
2. obviousness
3. vividness

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ēvidentia	ēvidentiae
genitive	ēvidentiae	ēvidentiārum
dative	ēvidentiae	ēvidentiīs
accusative	ēvidentiam	ēvidentiās
ablative	ēvidentiā	ēvidentiīs
vocative	ēvidentia	ēvidentiae

Descendants

• → Catalan: evidència
• → English: evidence
• → French: évidence
• → Friulian: evidence
• → Galician: evidencia
• → Italian: evidenza
• → Norwegian Bokmål: evidens
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: evidens
• → Piedmontese: evidensa
• → Portuguese: evidência
• → Romanian: evidență
• → Spanish: evidencia

References

• “evidentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “evidentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "evidentia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “evidentia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.