ens
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Late Latin ēns (“thing”), from esse (“to be”). See entity.
Noun edit
- (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
- (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 […]
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Inflected forms.
Noun edit
ens
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Pronoun edit
ens (proclitic, enclitic nos, contracted enclitic 'ns)
- us (direct or indirect object)
Usage notes edit
- ens is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs.
- Ens visiten. ― They visit us.
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Latin ēns (“being”); compare Spanish ente.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ens m (invariable)
- entity, being
- organization, entity, institution
- ens públic
- public institution
- ens públic
Etymology 3 edit
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ens
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse eins, from Middle Low German eines.
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Adjective edit
ens
Pronoun edit
ens
Latin edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
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 edit
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 |
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Participle edit
ēns (genitive entis); third-declension one-termination participle
- being
Declension edit
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 edit
- entitās (Mediaeval Latin)
References edit
- “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 edit
Adverb edit
ens
- Alternative form of enes
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French ens.
Preposition edit
ens
Mòcheno edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
ens
- accusative of biar: us
References edit
- “ens” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
Old French edit
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ens
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- Middle French: ens
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Adverb edit
ens
- even (negatively comparatively as in not even..., did you even [bother to]...)
- Var du ens född då?
- Were you even born then?
Derived terms edit
- inte ens (“not even...”)
Noun edit
ens
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ens
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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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Etymology edit
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Verb edit
ens (Tifinagh spelling ⴻⵏⵙ)
- (intransitive, transative) to spend the night, to stay overnight (in a place)
- (intransitive, transative) to sleep over
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