ens

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛnz/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnz

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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 […]

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Noun

ens

1. plural of en

Anagrams

• ESN, NES, SEN, SNe, Sen, Sen., sen

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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

1. us (direct or indirect object)

Usage notes

• ens is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs.

  Ens visiten. ― They visit us.

Declension

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
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Noun

ens m (invariable)

1. entity, being
2. organization, entity, institution

   ens públic

   public institution

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)

Noun

ens

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

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse eins, from Middle Low German eines.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eːns/,

Adjective

ens

1. identical
2. alike

Pronoun

ens

1. genitive of en

Latin

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ens/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ens/,

Noun

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

Declension

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

Descendants

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

Participle

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

1. being

Declension

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Derived terms

• entitās (Mediaeval Latin)

References

• “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

Adverb

ens

1. Alternative form of enes

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French ens.

Preposition

ens

1. in; inside

Mòcheno

Etymology

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

ens

1. accusative of biar: us

References

• “ens” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Old French

Alternative forms

• enz

Etymology

From Latin intus.

Preposition

ens

1. in; inside

Synonyms

• dedens

Descendants

• Middle French: ens

Swedish

Adverb

ens

1. even (negatively comparatively as in not even..., did you even ...)

   Var du ens född då?

   Were you even born then?

Derived terms

• inte ens (“not even...”)

Noun

ens

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

Derived terms

• med ens (“at once”)
• enslinje (“transit”)
• ensa

Pronoun

ens

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

Declension

Anagrams

• sen, sne

Tarifit

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Verb

ens (Tifinagh spelling ⴻⵏⵙ)

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

Conjugation

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Derived terms

• 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”)