essentia
Latin
Etymology
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
- (Classical) IPA(key): /esˈsen.ti.a/, [ɛs̠ˈs̠ɛn̪t̪iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /esˈsen.t͡si.a/, [esˈsɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
Declension
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
- essentiālis
- essentiāliter
- quinta essentia
Descendants
- → 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
- “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
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