substantia

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Interlingua

Noun

substantia (plural substantias)

  1. substance

Latin

Etymology

From substāns, present active participle of substō (“stand under; exist”), from sub + stō (“stand”).

Pronunciation

Noun

substantia f (genitive substantiae); first declension

  1. substance, essence, material, contents
  2. fortune, property, possessions

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative substantia substantiae
genitive substantiae substantiārum
dative substantiae substantiīs
accusative substantiam substantiās
ablative substantiā substantiīs
vocative substantia substantiae

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “substantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “substantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • substantia 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)
  • substantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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