quiddité

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin quidditas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ki.di.te/
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Noun

quiddité f (plural quiddités)

  1. (philosophy) quiddity (essence or inherent nature of a person or thing; that which makes something what it is)

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Further reading

Middle French

Etymology

14th century, borrowed from Latin quidditas.

Noun

quiddité f (plural quidditez)

  1. 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 singularf (oblique plural quidditez, nominative singular quiddité, nominative plural quidditez)

  1. quiddity; essence

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (quiddité, supplement)