esse

From Latin esse.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛsi/

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esse (plural esses)

1. Essence, essential nature.
   • 1788, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Wisdom of Angels Concerning Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, London: […] W. Chalklen, page 136:

     Hence it is that the Univerſe, which was created from his Eſſe, and which regarded as to Uſes is his Image, obtained theſe three in all and ſingular the Things appertaining to it.

   • 1801, Emanuel Swedenborg, Arcana Cœlestia: or, Heavenly Mysteries Contained in the Sacred Scriptures, or Word of the Lord, Manifested and Laid Open, volume X, London: […] J. Hodson, page 482:

     […] that is his proprium, since the esse of the life of man is his will;

   • 1824–68, A[braham] J[ones] Le Cras, The Theological Contrast: or, Error Exposed, and Truth Elucidated, Being an Investigation into All the Systems of Religion, Now Propagated in the Whole World, London: […] Thomas Goyder, pages 95–97:

     In like manner Christians treading closely on the heels of Jews, notwithstanding all the divine miracles, which accompanied their first establishment, iu^[sic] order to call them from the Deistical worship of a supreme esse, extended through all space, and to fix them in the exclusive acknowledgement of the one God in a divine human form, are equally guilty of idolatry, in worshipping Gods or persons, that have no real existence.

   • 1961, Gerard Smith, Lottie H. Kendzierski, Philosophy of Being, The Macmillan Company, page 339:

     Essence is a being by an esse which the essence is. Substance is a being by an esse which the substance is. Ens is a being by an esse which the ens is.

   • 2015, Christopher Hughes, Aquinas on Being, Goodness, and God, Routledge, page 62:

     Agreed, if there are as many esses in an individual as there are forms in that individual, then a plurality of substantial forms in an individual implies a plurality of substantial esses in that individual, just as a plurality of accidental forms in an individual implies a plurality of accidental esses in that individual.

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Esse”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 294.

esse

1. plural of es

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈe.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈe.se]

esse f (plural esses) (Valencia)

1. Alternative form of essa

• “esse” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

• äße (most dialects)
• eaße (parts of Moselle Franconian)

From Middle High German ezzen, from Old High German ezzan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛsə/

esse (third-person singular present iss or itt, preterite oß, past participle jesse or jejesse)

1. (Kölsch, nothernmost Ripuarian) to eat

• The second and third persons du itts, hä itt are attested for the formerly Low Franconian areas around Düsseldorf. These forms might now be obsolete.

• essa (Ultramontane)

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin essere, from Inherited from Latin esse. Compare Italian essere, French être.

• IPA^(key): /ˈes.sɛ/
• Hyphenation: es‧se

esse (Cismontane)

1. (copulative) to be
2. (intransitive) to be (to exist)
3. (intransitive) to be (to occupy a place)
4. (auxiliary, + past participle) Forms the passive voice; to be
5. (auxiliary, + past participle) Forms the perfect aspect of some verbs; to have

• Gallurese: esse, essi

• “esse, essa” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

• IPA^(key): /ɛs/

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• Homophones: ace, aces, ès, esses

esse m (plural esses)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.

• “esse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• essi

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin essere, from Latin esse.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛs.se/

esse

1. (auxiliary) to be

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esse

1. inflection of essen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive

• ëse (Wiesemann spelling system)

From Middle High German ezzen, from Old High German ezzan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈesə/

esse

1. to eat

   Ich esse keen Fleisch.

   I don't eat meat.

   Heit esse-mer Fisch.

   Today we eat fish.

• mitesse

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From estää (“to prevent”) +‎ -e. Akin to Finnish este.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈesːe/, [ˈe̞s̠ː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈesːe/, [ˈe̞ʃːe̞]
• Rhymes: -esː, -esːe
• Hyphenation: es‧se

esse

1. obstacle

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 36

From Latin es (the name of the letter S).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛs.se/

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• Rhymes: -ɛsse
• Hyphenation: ès‧se

esse f or m (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.; ess

• esse lunga

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta

From Latin ipsae, from ipse.

• IPA^(key): /ˈes.se/
• Rhymes: -esse
• Hyphenation: és‧se

esse f pl

1. plural of essa; they, them (female)

   Synonym: loro

• sese

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈes.se/, [ˈɛs̠ːɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈes.se/, [ˈɛsːe]

esse

1. present active infinitive of sum

esse m (indeclinable) (Medieval Latin)

1. state, condition

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈeːs.se/, [ˈeːs̠ːɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈes.se/, [ˈɛsːe]

ēsse

1. present active infinitive of edō

• “esse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• esse in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• essi
• eissi

esse

1. third-person singular feminine of as

From Middle High German ezzen, from Old High German ezzan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan. Compare German essen, Dutch eten, English eat, Swedish äta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛsə/

esse

1. to eat

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin essere, from Latin esse.

• IPA^(key): /ˈese/

esse

1. to be

From Old Galician-Portuguese esse, from Latin ipse (“himself”).

• êsse (superseded)

• Hyphenation: es‧se

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esse (feminine essa, masculine plural esses, feminine plural essas)

1. that (near you)

   Esse chapéu está limpo?

   Is that hat clean?

2. (Brazil) this (near me)

   Esse livro é muito bom.

   This book is very good.

esse (feminine essa, masculine plural esses, feminine plural essas, neuter isso) (definite demonstrative pronoun)

1. that, that one (near you)
2. that (that one); this (this one) (indicates something already mentioned or understood from context)

   Esse é o segredo para vencer.

   This is the secret to winning.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:esse.

• fazer esse

• Hyphenation: es‧se

esse m (plural esses)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.
2. something shaped like the letter S

For quotations using this term, see Citations:esse.

esse n

1. Only used in vara i sitt esse

• esse in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• esse in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

esse

1. hot

From Old French estre, from Early Medieval Latin essere, from Latin esse.

• IPA^(key): /ɛs/

esse

1. to be