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English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Middle French, from Medieval Latin quinta essentia (“fifth essence, aether”). "Essence" in this context is a synonym for "element". In pre-atomic/Aristotlean theory, there are four known elements or essences — Earth, Air, Fire and Water — and a putative fifth element (aether), which is considered to be of exceptional superior quality to the other four basic elements.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kw?n-t?s?-?ns, kw?n-t?s?-?ns, IPA^(key): /kw?n.?t?s.?ns/, /kw?n.?t?s.?ns/

Noun

quintessence (countable and uncountable, plural quintessences)

1. A thing that is the most perfect example of its type; the most perfect embodiment of something; epitome, prototype.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:model

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     As families and kindreds sometimes do; producing, after long ages of unnoted notability, some living quintescence of all the qualities they had, to flame forth as a man world-noted[.]

2. A pure substance.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:non-mixture

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

3. The essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gist
4. (alchemy) The fifth alchemical element, or essence, after earth, air, fire, and water that fills the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere.

   Synonym: aether

5. (physics) A hypothetical form of dark energy postulated to explain observations of an accelerating universe.

Derived terms

• quintessential
• quintessentially

Translations

Verb

quintessence (third-person singular simple present quintessences, present participle quintessencing, simple past and past participle quintessenced)

1. (transitive) To reduce to its purest and most concentrated essence.

References

• quintessence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “quintessence”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• “quintessence” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.t?.s??s/

Noun

quintessence f (plural quintessences)

1. quintessence (all senses)

English

Alternative forms

• paradigma

Etymology

Established 1475-85 from Late Latin parad?gma, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (parádeigma, “pattern”), from ???????????? (paradeíknumi, “I show [beside] or compare”) + -?? (-ma, “forming nouns concerning the results of actions”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pæ.??.da?m/
• (US) enPR: ?pär.?.d?m, IPA^(key): /?pæ?.?.da?m/, /?p??.?.da?m/, /?pe??.?.da?m/

  (Mary–marry–merry merger)

Noun

paradigm (plural paradigms or paradigmata)

1. A pattern, a way of doing something, especially (now often derogatory) a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.

   Synonyms: model, worldview

2. An example serving as the model for such a pattern.

   Synonyms: template, exemplar, posterboy

   • 2000, "Estate of William F. Jenkins v. Paramount Pictures Corp.":

   • 2003, Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides, Logics of Conversation, Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 46:

3. (linguistics) A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.

Synonyms

• (exemplar): Thesaurus:exemplar, Thesaurus:model

Hyponyms

• programming paradigm

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “paradigm”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “paradigm” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "paradigm" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.