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ens

See also: ENS, Ens., -ens, -eņš, and -ēns

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Etymology 1

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From Late Latin ēns (“thing”), from esse (“to be”). See entity.

Noun

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ens (plural enses or entia)

  1. (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
  2. (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 […]
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Etymology 2

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Inflected forms.

Noun

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ens

  1. plural of en

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Pronoun

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ens (proclitic, enclitic nos, contracted enclitic 'ns)

  1. us (direct or indirect object)
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  • ens is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs.
    Ens visiten. ― They visit us.
Declension
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Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
strong/subject weak (direct object) weak (indirect object) possessive
proclitic enclitic proclitic enclitic
singular 1st
person 		standard jo, mi3 em, m’ -me, ’m em, m’ -me, ’m meu
majestic1 nós ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd
person 		standard tu et, t’ -te, ’t et, t’ -te, ’t teu
formal1 vós us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
very formal2 vostè el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd
person 		m ell el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
f ella la, l’4 -la li -li seu
n ho -ho li -li seu
plural
1st person nosaltres ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd
person 		standard vosaltres us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
formal2 vostès els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd
person 		m ells els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
f elles les -les els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
adverbial ablative/genitive en, n’ -ne, ’n
locative hi -hi

1 Behaves grammatically as plural.   2 Behaves grammatically as third person.
3 Only as object of a preposition.   4 Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Latin ēns (“being”); compare Spanish ente.

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Noun

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ens m (invariable)

  1. entity, being
  2. organization, entity, institution
    ens públic
    public institution

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ens

  1. (traditional) plural of en (“the letter N”)

Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse eins, from Middle Low German eines.

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Adjective

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ens

  1. identical
  2. alike

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ens

  1. genitive of en

Latin

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Etymology

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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

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ēns n (genitive entis); third declension

  1. (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.
  2. essence
  3. existence

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Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

singular plural
nominative ēns entia
genitive entis entium
dative entī entibus
accusative ēns entia
ablative entī entibus
vocative ēns entia

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  • Albanian: ent
  • Italian: ente
  • Portuguese: ente
  • Spanish: ente

Participle

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ēns (genitive entis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. being

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Third-declension participle.

singular plural
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.

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References

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  • “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

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Adverb

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ens

  1. Alternative form of enes

Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French ens.

Preposition

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ens

  1. in; inside

Mòcheno

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Etymology

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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

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ens

  1. accusative of biar: us

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Old French

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Etymology

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From Latin intus.

Preposition

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ens

  1. in; inside

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  • Middle French: ens

Swedish

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Adverb

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ens

  1. even (negatively comparatively as in not even..., did you even [bother to]...)
    Var du ens född då?
    Were you even born then?

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Noun

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ens

  1. indefinite genitive singular of en
  2. alignment (cf. ensa, enslinje)

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Pronoun

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ens

  1. genitive of the indefinite pronoun man; one's

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Swedish personal pronouns
Number Person 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
1Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, though it remains limited.
2Informal
4Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.
5Informal, somewhat dialectal
6Formal address
7Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

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Verb

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ens (Tifinagh spelling ⴻⵏⵙ)

  1. (intransitive, transative) to spend the night, to stay overnight (in a place)
  2. (intransitive, transative) to sleep over

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  • Causative: sens (“to lodge”)
  • munsu (“to dine”)
    • Causative: smunsu (“to invite to dinner”)
    • amensi (“dinner”)
  • asensi (“first day of a wedding”)
  • tamensiwt (“sleepover”)
  • amnus (“worry”)
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