essence – French noun declension

Noun: essence
Gender: f Hyphenation:

Singular f	essence
Plural f	essences

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like essence

polémochorie, kératotomie, farigoule, compréhension, palestre, abnégation, hyperuricémie, psychométrie, minicassette, piézo-électricité, potabilité, aromathérapie, conjugalité, conjugaison, cohésion, obscurité, bacillose, cohæsion, aponévrotomie, sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin essentia. Sense 2 very likely from Latin edō (“eat”), in the sense of 'what is eaten, fuel'. Many forms of the latter are indistinguishable from the former, and so the confusion with essence is very understandable. See: Latin Nouns 'essentia'.

Verbs referencing "essence"

Finnish Nouns esanssi, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns essens, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns essens, Romanian Nouns esență, Hungarian Nouns esszencia.

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