instantia

Latin

Etymology

From īnstāns (present active participle of īnstō) +‎ -ia.

Noun

īnstantia f (genitive īnstantiae); first declension

1. a being near, presence
2. perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency

Declension

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

• Catalan: instància
• French: instance
  • Dutch: instantie
  • English: instance
• German: Instanz
• Italian: istanza
• Portuguese: instância
• Romanian: instanță
• Russian: инстанция (instancija)
• Spanish: instancia

References

• “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.