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Latin
Etymology
From īnstāns (present active participle of īnstō) + -ia.
Noun
īnstantia f (genitive īnstantiae); first declension
- a being near, presence
- perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “instantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “instantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- instantia 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)
- instantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “instance”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.