essentiel
Danish edit
Adjective edit
essentiel (neuter essentielt, plural and definite singular attributive essentielle)
Further reading edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Late Latin essentiālis.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
essentiel (feminine essentielle, masculine plural essentiels, feminine plural essentielles)
- essential
- Coordinate term: accessoire
- distinguer l’essentiel de l’accessoire ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Noun edit
essentiel m (plural essentiels)
- essential; essence, essential part
- 2005, Marc-André Wagner, Le cheval dans les croyances germaniques: paganisme, christianisme et traditions [The Horse in Germanic Beliefs: Paganism, Christianity, and Traditions], Honoré Champion, →ISBN:
- Le dernier type est le "cheval-jupon", un terme que l’ethnologue réserve à un déguisement pour une personne, constitué comme suit : le corps de la personne est entouré à la taille par un tissu — le jupon — recouvrant l’essentiel de ses jambes, une tête du cheval en bois […]
- The last type is the "hobby horse", a term which Ethnologue reserves for a disguise for a person, made as follows: the body of the person is surrounded at the waist by a cloth — the skirt — covering most of his legs; a horse's head of wood […]
Further reading edit
- “essentiel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.