essentia

< Latin essentia

• IPA^(key): /ˈesːentiɑ/,
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): es‧sen‧tia

essentia

1. (philosophy) Synonym of olemus (“essence”) (true nature of anything).

From *essēns (hypothetical present participle of sum (“to be”)) +‎ -ia, by analogy with the present infinitive esse, and other derivations from the same root, such as absentia (from absum) and praesentia (from praesum); coined by Cicero to translate Ancient Greek οὐσία (ousía), which is its exact cognate. Literally, “beingness”.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /esˈsen.ti.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /esˈsen.t͡si.a/,

essentia f (genitive essentiae); first declension

1. essence, being

First-declension noun.

• essentiālis
• essentiāliter
• quinta essentia

• “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.