essentia
Latin
urediEtymology
urediAnalogical formation based on esse (“to be”), present active infinitive of sum (“I am”), coined to translate Antički Grčki οὐσία (ousía).
Pronunciation
urediNoun
urediessentia
Inflection
urediCase | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | essentia | essentiae |
Genitive | essentiae | essentiārum |
Dative | essentiae | essentiīs |
Accusative | essentiam | essentiās |
Ablative | essentiā | essentiīs |
Vocative | essentia | essentiae |
Derived terms
urediDescendants
uredi- → Bugarski: esénciя (eséncija)
- → Češki: esence
- → Danski: essens
- → Holandski: essentie
- Engleski: essence
- Esperanto: esenco
- Francuski: essence
- Galician: esencia
- → Nemački: Essenz
- → Mađarski: eszencia
- Italijanski: essenza
- → Malteški: essenza
- → Poljski: esencja
- Portugalski: essência
- Rumunski: esență
- → Ruski: эssénciя (essɛ́ncija)
- → Srpskohrvatski: esѐncija, esèncija
- → Slovački: esencia
- → Slovenski: esenca
- Španski: esencia
- → Švedski: essens
References
uredi- “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, 1883–1887)
- essentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette