essentia
Latin edit
Etymology edit
An analogical formation based on esse (“to be”), present active infinitive of sum (“I am”), coined by Cicero to translate Ancient Greek οὐσία (ousía).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /esˈsen.ti.a/, [ɛs̠ˈs̠ɛn̪t̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /esˈsen.t͡si.a/, [esˈsɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
Noun edit
essentia f (genitive essentiae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | essentia | essentiae |
| Genitive | essentiae | essentiārum |
| Dative | essentiae | essentiīs |
| Accusative | essentiam | essentiās |
| Ablative | essentiā | essentiīs |
| Vocative | essentia | essentiae |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Bulgarian: есе́нция (eséncija)
- Catalan: essència
- → Czech: esence
- → Danish: essens
- → Dutch: essentie
- → English: essence
- Esperanto: esenco
- French: essence
- Friulian: essence
- → Galician: esencia
- → German: Essenz
- → Hungarian: eszencia
- Italian: essenza
- → Maltese: essenza
- Occitan: esséncia
- Piedmontese: essensa
- → Polish: esencja
- → Portuguese: essência
- → Russian: эссе́нция (essɛ́ntsija)
- → Serbo-Croatian: есѐнција, esèncija
- → Slovak: esencia
- → Slovene: esenca
- Spanish: esencia
- → Swedish: essens
References edit
- “essentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- essentia 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)
- essentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette