Noun: essere
Gender: m
Hyphenation: ès‧se‧re
| Singular m | essere |
| Plural m | esseri |
countable and uncountable
Sample Sentences
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l’essere ed il nulla (being and nothingness)
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passare dall’essere al non essere (to pass from the living to the non-living)
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scienza/problema dell’essere (science/problem of being)
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L’essere semplicissimo/Il semplicissimo essere (The very simple being)
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L’essere stesso/Il semplicissimo essere (The being itself)
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la totalità dell’essere (the totality of being)
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[…] Nel qual modo, accrescerai propriamente la vita umana, ed empiendo quegli smisurati intervalli di tempo nei quali il nostro essere è piuttosto durare che vivere, ti potrai dar vanto di prolungarla. […] ([…] In this way, you will properly increase human life, and by filling up those immense intervals of time in which our being is rather lasting than living, you can boast of prolonging it. […]) [14–19 May 1835, Giacomo Leopardi, “Dialogo di un fisico e di un metafisico [Dialogue of a physicist and a metaphysician]”, in Operette morali [Moral operettas] (collection of phylosophical novellas and dialogues), page 66:]
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conoscere una persona/una cosa/un fatto nel suo vero essere (to know a person/a thing/a fact in its true being)
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(lui/lei/egli/ella/esso/essa/uno/una) gli domandò/chiese dell’esser suo (he/she/it/one asked him about his being.)
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[…] l’essere dell’uomo dista grandemente da quel delle bestie […] ([…] the being of the man is very far from that of the beasts […]) [1802–1874, Niccolò Tommaseo, (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
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trovarsi in essere (to be in being/to be living)
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[…] le sue lettere son tutte in essere […] ([…] his letters are all in existence […]) [1626–1697, Francesco Redi, (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
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in buon/cattivo essere (in good/bad being/conditions)
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mobili/casa in cattivo essere (furniture/house/home in bad conditions)
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mio nonno è sempre in essere (my grandad/grandfather is always in good conditions/healthy/in prosperity)
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avere in essere (to have ready)
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[…] fate che al mio ritorno la scena sia in essere […] ([…] let the scene be ready at my return […]) [1507–1566, Annibale Caro, (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
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porre in essere (to put in place/into operation)
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[…] Tutte nature […] si muovono a diversi porti / per lo gran mar de l’essere […] ([…] All natures […] move to different ports / via the great sea of being/god […]) [1321 (volume and full book), Dante Alighieri, “I”, in Divina Commedia [Divine Commedy], volume Paradiso [Paradise] (allegorical-didactic poem, epic poetry), lines 110, 112–113:]
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È un essere spregevole. (it is a despicable being/creature.)
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Lo stesso essere (vivente) (The same (living) being/creature)
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l’esserci (the existence)
Nouns inflected like essere
rigeneratore,
biancomangiare,
interneurone,
tiomersale,
chemiorecettore,
posteggiatore,
concelebrante,
pleistocene,
kudu maggiore,
sepide,
setale,
segone,
sedere,
sedime,
sedile,
gremiale,
chiarificatore,
savore,
sapere,
sapone, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin sum, esse. The infinitive form is attested already from Early Medieval Latin essere. The past participle stato, shared with the verb stare, is from Latin stātus. See: Latin Nouns '
sum', Latin Nouns '
sum'.
Verbs referencing "essere"
French Nouns
être.
Translations
genuflect, to behave in a servile manner
get, colloquial: to be
have, auxiliary used in forming the perfect and the past perfect tenses
stay, to continue to have a particular quality