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Danish
Adjective
essentiel (neuter essentielt, plural and definite singular attributive essentielle)
- essential
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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin essentiālis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
essentiel (feminine essentielle, masculine plural essentiels, feminine plural essentielles)
- essential
- Coordinate term: accessoire
- distinguer l’essentiel de l’accessoire ― to distinguish the essential from the accessory
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Noun
essentiel m (plural essentiels)
- essential; essence, essential part
2005, Marc-André Wagner, Le cheval dans les croyances germaniques: paganisme, christianisme et traditions [The Horse in Germanic Beliefs: Paganism, Christianity, and Traditions], Honoré Champion, →ISBN:Le dernier type est le "cheval-jupon", un terme que l’ethnologue réserve à un déguisement pour une personne, constitué comme suit : le corps de la personne est entouré à la taille par un tissu — le jupon — recouvrant l’essentiel de ses jambes, une tête du cheval en bois […]- The last type is the "hobby horse", a term which Ethnologue reserves for a disguise for a person, made as follows: the body of the person is surrounded at the waist by a cloth — the skirt — covering most of his legs; a horse's head of wood
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