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essence
English
Etymology
From French essence, from Latin essentia (“the being or essence of a thing”), from an artificial formation of esse (“to be”), to translate Ancient Greek ????? (ousía, “being”), from ?? (?n), present participle of ???? (eimí, “I am, exist”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??s?ns/
Noun
essence (countable and uncountable, plural essences)
- The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
- 1713 September 21, Joseph Addison, The Guardian, collected in The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, volume IV, Birmingham: John Baskerville, published 1761, page 263:
- CHARITY is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands, ?ays an old writer. Gifts and alms are the expre??ions, not the e??ence of this virtue.
- 1713 September 21, Joseph Addison, The Guardian, collected in The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, volume IV, Birmingham: John Baskerville, published 1761, page 263:
- (philosophy) The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
- Constituent substance.
- A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.
- A significant feature of something.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.
- An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter used for flavouring.
- Fragrance, a perfume.
Synonyms
- (inherent nature): quintessence, whatness; See also Thesaurus:essence
- (significant feature): gist, crux; See also Thesaurus:gist
- (fragrance): aroma, bouquet; See also Thesaurus:aroma
Derived terms
- in essence
- of the essence; time is of the essence
Related terms
- essential
- essentially
- essentialism
- quintessential
Translations
Further reading
- essence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- essence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- senesce
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin essentia. Sense 2 very likely from Latin ed? (“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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.s??s/, /?.s??s/
Noun
essence f (plural essences)
- (philosophy, theology) essence
- petrol, gasoline
- essence, essential oil
Derived terms
- poste d'essence
- station essence
Further reading
- “essence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- censées
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basis
English
Etymology
From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis), from Proto-Indo-European *g?émtis, derived from Proto-Indo-European *g?em- (English come). Doublet of base.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: b??s?s, IPA(key): /?be?s?s/,
- Rhymes: -e?s?s
Noun
basis (plural bases or (rare) baseis or (nonstandard) basises)
- A physical base or foundation.
- 1695, William Congreve, To the King, on the taking of Namur, 1810, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers (biographies), The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 10, page 271,
- Beholding rocks from their firm basis rent;
Mountain on mountain thrown,
With threatening hurl, that shook th' aerial firmament!
- Beholding rocks from their firm basis rent;
- 1695, William Congreve, To the King, on the taking of Namur, 1810, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers (biographies), The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 10, page 271,
- A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- I wonder if the South Korean side has any basis that its smog is from China.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- An underlying condition or circumstance.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]
- Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis, a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[1]
- A regular frequency.
- You should brush your teeth on a daily basis at minimum.
- The flights to Fiji leave on a weekly basis.
- Cars must be checked on a yearly basis.
- (agriculture, trading) The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an agreed reference price, which is usually the futures price at which the given crop is trading at a commodity exchange.
- (linear algebra) In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
- (accounting) Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
- (topology) A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.
Synonyms
- (starting point for discussion): base
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
- absis, bassi, isbas
Catalan
Verb
basis
- second-person singular present subjunctive form of basar
Danish
Noun
basis
- (linear algebra) basis
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis). Doublet of base. Also a distant doublet of komst, via Proto-Indo-European *g???tis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ba?.z?s/, /?ba?.z?s/
- Hyphenation: ba?sis
Noun
basis f (plural basissen or bases, diminutive basisje n)
- basis (principle, foundation, that which is elementary)
- base (lower portion, foundation)
- Obsolete form of base (“base, alkali”).
Derived terms
- basisarts
- basisbeurs
- basisdemocratie
- basisinkomen
- basisonderwijs
- basisschool
- machtsbasis
- thuisbasis
Related terms
- basaal
- base
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: basis
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?sis/, [?b?s?is?]
- Rhymes: -?sis
- Syllabification: ba?sis
Noun
basis
- basis, base
Declension
Anagrams
- bassi
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch basis, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek ????? (básis). Doublet of basa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?bas?s]
- Hyphenation: ba?sis
Noun
basis
- basis, base
- basis,
- (mathematics) in a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
- base,
- (geometry) the lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- (military) permanent structure for housing military; headquarter.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “basis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (básis, “foundation, base”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ba.sis/, [?bäs??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ba.sis/, [?b??s?is]
Noun
basis f (genitive basis); third declension
- A pedestal, foot, base; basis, foundation.
- (architecture) The lowest part of the shaft of a column.
- (grammar) The primitive word, root.
- (of cattle) A track, footprint.
Declension
Note that there are the alternative forms base?s for the genitive singular, base? for the ablative singular, basin for accusative singular, and baseis for the accusative plural.Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -?).
Synonyms
- (basis, foundation): r?d?x
- (pedestal, base): crep?d?
- (track, footprint): vest?gium
Derived terms
- basella
- basicula
- basil?ris
Related terms
- antibasis
Descendants
- English: base, basis
- French: base
- German: Basis f
- Italian: base
- Russian: ????? f (báza), ?????? m (bázis)
- Spanish: base
- Swedish: bas
References
- basis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- basis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- basis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (básis)
Noun
basis m (definite singular basisen, indefinite plural basiser, definite plural basisene)
- basis
- base
Derived terms
- basisår
- verdensbasis
References
- “basis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (básis)
Noun
basis m (definite singular basisen, indefinite plural basisar, definite plural basisane)
- basis
- base
Derived terms
- basisår
References
- “basis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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