esencia

• essência (reintegrationist)

First attested in the 15th century. Learned borrowing from Latin essentia.

• Hyphenation: e‧sen‧cia

esencia f (plural esencias)

1. essence
   • 1414, Clarinda de A. Maia, editor, História do galego-português, Coimbra: I.N.I.C, page 99:

     Deus Padre et Fillo et Spiritu Santo, treſ perſonas en hũa eſſençia deujnal

     God, Father and Son and Holy Ghost, three persons in a single divine essence

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “essenç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esencia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “esencia”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• IPA^(key):

esencia f (genitive singular esencie, nominative plural esencie, genitive plural esencií, declension pattern of ulica)

1. essence

• “esencia”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

From Latin essentia.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /eˈsenθja/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /eˈsensja/
• Rhymes: -enθja
• Rhymes: -ensja
• Syllabification: e‧sen‧cia

esencia f (plural esencias)

1. essence
2. gist

• “esencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28