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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin quidditas.
Pronunciation
Noun
quiddité f (plural quiddités)
- (philosophy) quiddity (essence or inherent nature of a person or thing; that which makes something what it is)
See also
Further reading
Middle French
Etymology
14th century, borrowed from Latin quidditas.
Noun
quiddité f (plural quidditez)
- quiddity; essence
1578, Francesco Giorgio, translated by Guy Le Fèvre de La Boderie, L'harmonie du monde divisé en trois cantiques, page 43:en laquelle le propre essentiel, ou la quiddité (comme ils parlent) est dicte du subiect: il faut chercher une autre cause de necessité […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
Old French
Noun
quiddité oblique singular, f (oblique plural quidditez, nominative singular quiddité, nominative plural quidditez)
- quiddity; essence
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (quiddité, supplement)