different between ens vs uns

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?nz/

Etymology 1

From Late Latin ?ns (“thing”), from esse (“to be”). See entity.

Noun

ens (plural enses or entia)

1. (philosophy) An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute.
2. (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 2007, p. 245:

     Here he states that there are five ‘active principles’ – the five Enses or entia – that influence our bodies and give rise to disease […]

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Noun

ens

1. plural of en

Anagrams

• ESN, NES, SEN, SNe, Sen, Sen., sen

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ns/

Pronoun

ens (proclitic, enclitic nos, contracted enclitic 'ns)

1. us (direct or indirect object)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin ?ns (“being”); compare Spanish ente.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /??ns/

Noun

ens m (plural ens)

1. organization, entity, institution

   ens públic

   public institution

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse eins, from Middle Low German eines.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?ns/, [e??ns]

Adjective

ens

1. identical
2. alike

Pronoun

ens

1. genitive of en

Latin

Etymology

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 -?ns of second and third conjugation verbs, as an analogy to the Ancient Greek present participle ?? (?n) which falsely appears to be the same bare suffix but etymologically corresponds to s?ns, both from *h?es- (“to be”). See also essentia for a similar formation.

The original present participle s?ns had taken on the meaning "guilty" in the Classical period, but the still productive combining form -s?ns present in the verbs absum (abs?ns (“absent”)) and praesum (praes?ns (“present”)) was ignored in creating this form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ens/, [??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ens/, [?ns]

Noun

?ns n (genitive entis); third declension

1. (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.

2. essence
3. existence

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Descendants

• Albanian: ent
• Italian: ente
• Portuguese: ente
• Spanish: ente

Participle

?ns (genitive entis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. being

Declension

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Derived terms

• entit?s (Mediaeval Latin)

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• ens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French ens.

Preposition

ens

1. in; inside

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German uns, from Old High German uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns, from Proto-Indo-European *n?smé. Cognate with German uns, English us; also Ancient Greek ????? (h?meîs), Sanskrit ??????? (asm?n), Old Irish ar.

Pronoun

ens

1. accusative of biar: us

References

• “ens” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Old French

Alternative forms

• enz

Etymology

From Latin intus.

Preposition

ens

1. in; inside

Synonyms

• dedens

Descendants

• Middle French: ens

Swedish

Adverb

ens

1. even (negatively comparatively as in not even..., did you even [bother to]...)

   Var du ens född då?

   Were you even born then?

Derived terms

• inte ens (“not even...”)

Noun

ens

1. indefinite genitive singular of en
2. alignment (cf. ensa, enslinje)

Derived terms

• med ens (“at once”)
• enslinje (“transit”)
• ensa

Pronoun

ens

1. genitive of the indefinite pronoun "man"; one's

Declension

Anagrams

• sen, sne

English

Alternative forms

• 'uns

Noun

uns

1. plural of un

Anagrams

• NUS, Sun, Sun., USN, sun

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ?n?s, accusative masculine plural of ?nus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?uns/

Article

uns m pl

1. masculine plural of un

Noun

uns

1. plural of un

French

Etymology

From Latin ?n?s, accusative masculine plural of ?nus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -œ?

Noun

uns ?

1. plural of un

Anagrams

• nus

Galician

Etymology

From Latin ?n?s, accusative masculine plural of ?nus.

Pronunciation

Article

uns m pl (masculine singular un, feminine singular unha, feminine plural unhas)

1. (indefinite) some

German

Alternative forms

• Uns (pluralis majestatis)
• unns, vnns, vns (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ns/

Pronoun

uns

1. accusative/dative of wir: us

See also

• wir
• unser
• unserige, unsrige

Further reading

• “uns” in Duden online

Gothic

Romanization

uns

1. Romanization of ????????????

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uns/

Pronoun

uns

1. accusative/dative of meer

Inflection

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse unz.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ns

Conjunction

uns

1. until

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon ?s, from Proto-Germanic *uns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ns/

Pronoun

uns

1. (personal pronoun, first person, in the plural, accusative) us
2. (personal pronoun, first person, in the plural, dative) us
3. (possessive, first person, in the plural) our

Declension

Personal pronoun:

Possesive pronoun:

Alternative forms

• ûs

Descendants

• German Low German: uns

Old French

Article

uns

1. some (masculine oblique plural indefinite article)
2. a, an (masculine nominative singular indefinite article)

Declension

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German uns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ns/

Pronoun

uns

1. us
2. to us

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin ?n?s, accusative masculine plural of ?nus.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?s/
• Hyphenation: uns

Article

uns

1. masculine plural of um

See also

Noun

uns

1. plural of um

Pronoun

uns

1. plural of um

Adverb

uns (comparative mais uns superlative o mais uns)

1. about, some (indicating an approximate amount)

   Esse prédio tem uns vinte metros de altura - That building is about twenty meters tall

Romanian

Etymology

Past participle of unge.

Adjective

uns m or n (feminine singular uns?, masculine plural un?i, feminine and neuter plural unse)

1. covered with a fatty substance
2. anointed

Declension

Swedish

Noun

uns n

1. an ounce (31 grams)

   1 lödig mark = 8 uns = 16 lod = 64 kvintin

2. very little, a tiny bit

Declension

References

• Uns in Nordisk familjebok (2nd ed., 1920)