ens
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Late Latin ēns (“thing”), from esse (“to be”). See entity.
NounEdit
- (philosophy) An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute.
- 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, p. 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
- 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, p. 41:
- (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 2007, p. 245:
- Here he states that there are five ‘active principles’ – the five Enses or entia – that influence our bodies and give rise to disease […]
- 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow 2007, p. 245:
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Inflected forms.
NounEdit
ens
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
ens (proclitic, enclitic nos, contracted enclitic 'ns)
- us (direct or indirect object)
Usage notesEdit
- ens is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs.
- Ens visiten. ― They visit us.
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Latin ēns (“being”); compare Spanish ente.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ens m (plural ens)
- organization, entity, institution
- ens públic
- public institution
- ens públic
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse eins, from Middle Low German eines.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
ens
PronounEdit
ens
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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
DeclensionEdit
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 |
DescendantsEdit
ParticipleEdit
ēns (genitive entis); third-declension one-termination participle
- being
DeclensionEdit
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 termsEdit
- entitās (Mediaeval Latin)
ReferencesEdit
- “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 EnglishEdit
AdverbEdit
ens
- Alternative form of enes
Middle FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French ens.
PrepositionEdit
ens
MòchenoEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronounEdit
ens
- accusative of biar: us
ReferencesEdit
- “ens” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PrepositionEdit
ens
SynonymsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Middle French: ens
SwedishEdit
AdverbEdit
ens
- even (negatively comparatively as in not even..., did you even [bother to]...)
- Var du ens född då?
- Were you even born then?
- Var du ens född då?
Derived termsEdit
- inte ens (“not even...”)
NounEdit
ens
Derived termsEdit
PronounEdit
ens
DeclensionEdit
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 |