different between essence vs nucleus

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)

2. 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.
3. (philosophy) The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
4. Constituent substance.
5. A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.
6. A significant feature of something.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

7. The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.

8. An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter used for flavouring.

9. 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)

1. (philosophy, theology) essence
2. petrol, gasoline
3. 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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nucleus (“kernel, core”), a diminutive of nux (“nut”). The earliest uses refer to the head of a comet and the kernel of a seed, both recorded in Lexicon Technicum in 1704. The sense in atomic physics was coined by English scientist Michael Faraday in 1844 in a theoretical meaning.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?nju?.kli.?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?nu?kli.?s/

Noun

nucleus (plural nuclei or nucleuses)

1. The core, central part of something, around which other elements are assembled.
2. An initial part or version that will receive additions.

   This collection will form the nucleus of a new library.

3. (chemistry, physics) The massive, positively charged central part of an atom, made up of protons and neutrons.
4. (cytology) A large membrane-enclosed organelle found in eukaryotic cells which contains genetic material.
5. (neuroanatomy) A ganglion, cluster of many neuronal bodies where synapsing occurs.
6. (phonetics, phonology) The central part of a syllable, most commonly a vowel.

   Coordinate terms: onset, coda

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• nucules, unclues

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin n?cleus (“kernel, core”), diminutive of nux (“nut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nykle?j?s/

Noun

nucleus m (plural nucleussen or nuclei, diminutive nucleusje n)

1. nucleus, core

Synonyms

• kern

Related terms

• nucleair
• nucleïne
• nucleon

Latin

Alternative forms

• nuculeus

Etymology

A diminutive of nux (“nut”).

Pronunciation

n?cleus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?nu.kle.us/, [?n?k??e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?nu.kle.us/, [?nu?kl?us]

n?cleus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?nu?.kle.us/, [?nu?k??e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?nu.kle.us/, [?nu?kl?us]

Noun

n??cleus m (genitive n??cle?); second declension

1. (literally) (small) nut
2. kernel
3. (figuratively) core
4. nucleus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• n??cle?ris (New Latin)
• n??cle?tus (New Latin)
• n??cle?

Descendants

References

• n??cl?us (n?c?l?us) in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• n?cl?us in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,043/1
• “nucleus” on page 1,199 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)