adhaerentia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ad.hae̯ˈren.ti.a/, [äd̪(ɦ)äe̯ˈrɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.deˈren.t͡si.a/, [äd̪eˈrɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

adhaerentia f (genitive adhaerentiae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) adherence, dependence
   • 1556, Heinrich Helm, Homiliarum F. Henrici Helmesii Germipolitani, in Epistolas et Evangelia totius anni […] ‎^[1], volume 3, page 26:

     Et contra, quod natum est ex spiritu sancto, spiritus est, non per essentiam, sed per conformitatem, et imitationem et adhaerentiam. Quia qui adhaeret Deo, unus spiritus est cum eo.

     On the contrary, what is born of the Holy Spirit is spirit, not by essence, but by conformity and imitation and adherence. For whoever adheres to God is one spirit with him.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	adhaerentia	adhaerentiae
Genitive	adhaerentiae	adhaerentiārum
Dative	adhaerentiae	adhaerentiīs
Accusative	adhaerentiam	adhaerentiās
Ablative	adhaerentiā	adhaerentiīs
Vocative	adhaerentia	adhaerentiae

Synonyms

• adhaesio

Descendants

• Catalan: adherència
• French: adhérence
• Galician: adherencia
• Italian: aderenza
• Occitan: aderéncia
• Portuguese: aderência
• Spanish: adherencia

Participle

adhaerentia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of adhaerēns

References

• adhaerentia 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)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “adhaerentia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill