instantia
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From īnstāns (present active participle of īnstō) + -ia.
Noun edit
īnstantia f (genitive īnstantiae); first declension
- a being near, presence
- perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | īnstantia | īnstantiae |
| Genitive | īnstantiae | īnstantiārum |
| Dative | īnstantiae | īnstantiīs |
| Accusative | īnstantiam | īnstantiās |
| Ablative | īnstantiā | īnstantiīs |
| Vocative | īnstantia | īnstantiae |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: instància
- French: instance
- German: Instanz
- Italian: istanza
- Portuguese: instância
- Romanian: instanță
- Russian: инстанция (instancija)
- Spanish: instancia
References edit
- “instantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “instantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- instantia 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)
- instantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “instance”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.