essence
French
noun
Definitions
- (philosophy) essence
- petrol, gasoline
- essence, essential oil
Etymology
Derived from Latin essentia (essence, being, the being essence of a thing).
Origin
Latin
essentia
Gloss
essence, being, the being essence of a thing
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- essence English
- essenced English
- essenceless English
- unessence English
- essentia Latin
- essentialis Latin
- essentiālis Latin
- essenzia Italian
- esencia Spanish, Castilian
- οὐσία Ancient Greek
- *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European
- essens Norwegian Bokmål
- essens Swedish
- essens Norwegian Nynorsk
- essens Danish
- esenco Esperanto
- esencija Serbo-Croatian
- есенција Serbo-Croatian
- esență Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- aiste Old Irish
- xăng Vietnamese
- esséncia Occitan
- សាំង Central Khmer
- esensya Hiligaynon
- esaans Wolof
- ia săng Jarai