ens
English
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Late Latin ēns (“thing”), from esse (“to be”). See entity.
Noun
[edit]- (philosophy) An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute.
- 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 41:
- Forms sphered in fire with trembling light array'd, / Ens without weight, and substance without shade […] .
- 1860, John Henry Macmahon, A treatise on metaphysics: chiefly in reference to revealed religion, page 195:
- the Nature of the Supreme Ens
- (chemistry, alchemy, now historical) Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; an essence, an active principle.
- 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 245:
- Here he states that there are five ‘active principles’ – the five Enses or entia – that influence our bodies and give rise to disease […]
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Inflected forms.
Noun
[edit]ens
Anagrams
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[edit]Pronoun
[edit]ens (proclitic, enclitic nos, contracted enclitic 'ns)
- us (direct or indirect object)
Usage notes
[edit]- ens is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs.
- Ens visiten. ― They visit us.
Declension
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Latin ēns (“being”); compare Spanish ente.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ens m (invariable)
- entity, being
- organization, entity, institution
- ens públic
- public institution
- ens públic
Etymology 3
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[edit]ens
Danish
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[edit]From Old Norse eins, from Middle Low German eines.
Pronunciation
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[edit]ens
Pronoun
[edit]ens
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Formed as a present participle of sum (“to be”) in Medieval Latin (and therefore unknown in the Classical period) by using the bare present participial ending -ēns of second and third conjugation verbs, as an analogy to the Ancient Greek present participle ὤ
The original present participle sōns had taken on the meaning "guilty" in the Classical period, but the still productive combining form -sēns present in the verbs absum (absēns (“absent”)) and praesum (praesēns (“present”)) was ignored in creating this form.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ens/, [ẽːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ens/, [ɛns]
Noun
[edit]ēns n (genitive entis); third declension
- (Medieval Latin) being
- 13th c., Boetius of Dacia
- Ens autem aeternum nullum sequitur in duratione; ergo mundus non est aeternus.
- Nothing follows the Eternal Being (God) in duration; therefore, the world isn't eternal.
- 13th c., Boetius of Dacia
- essence
- existence
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ēns | entia |
Genitive | entis | entium |
Dative | entī | entibus |
Accusative | ēns | entia |
Ablative | entī | entibus |
Vocative | ēns | entia |
Descendants
[edit]Participle
[edit]ēns (genitive entis); third-declension one-termination participle
- being
Declension
[edit]Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | ēns | entēs | entia | ||
Genitive | entis | entium | |||
Dative | entī | entibus | |||
Accusative | entem | ēns | entēs entīs |
entia | |
Ablative | ente entī1 |
entibus | |||
Vocative | ēns | entēs | entia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
Derived terms
[edit]- entitās (Mediaeval Latin)
References
[edit]- “ens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ens 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)
- ens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle English
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ens
- Alternative form of enes
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French ens.
Preposition
[edit]ens
Mòcheno
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German uns, from Old High German uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé. Cognate with German uns, English us; also Ancient Greek ἡ
Pronoun
[edit]ens
- accusative of biar: us
References
[edit]- “ens” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
Old French
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[edit]ens
Synonyms
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[edit]- Middle French: ens
Swedish
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ens
- even (negatively comparatively as in not even..., did you even [bother to]...)
- Var du ens född då?
- Were you even born then?
Derived terms
[edit]- inte ens (“not even...”)
Noun
[edit]ens
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[edit]ens
Declension
[edit]Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
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common | neuter | plural | |||||
singular | first | — | jag | mig, mej3 | min | mitt | mina |
second | — | du | dig, dej3 | din | ditt | dina | |
third | masculine (person) | han | honom, han2, en5 | hans | |||
feminine (person) | hon | henne, na5 | hennes | ||||
gender-neutral (person)1 | hen | hen, henom7 | hens | ||||
common (noun) | den | den | dess | ||||
neuter (noun) | det | det | dess | ||||
indefinite | man or en4 | en | ens | ||||
reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina | ||
plural | first | — | vi | oss | vår, våran2 | vårt, vårat2 | våra |
second | — | ni | er | er, eran2, ers6 | ert, erat2 | era | |
archaic | I | eder | eder, eders6 | edert | edra | ||
third | — | de, dom3 | dem, dom3 | deras | |||
reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina |
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Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ens (Tifinagh spelling ⴻⵏⵙ)
- (intransitive, transative) to spend the night, to stay overnight (in a place)
- (intransitive, transative) to sleep over
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