essentiel
Danish
Adjective
essentiel (neuter essentielt, plural and definite singular attributive essentielle)
Further reading
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin essentiālis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.sɑ̃.sjɛl/
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Adjective
essentiel (feminine essentielle, masculine plural essentiels, feminine plural essentielles)
- essential
- Coordinate term: accessoire
- distinguer l’essentiel de l’accessoire ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Romanian: esențial
- → Turkish: esansiyel
Noun
essentiel m (plural essentiels)
- essential; essence, essential part
- 2005, Marc-André Wagner, Le cheval dans les croyances germaniques: paganisme, christianisme et traditions [The Horse in Germanic Beliefs: Paganism, Christianity, and Traditions], Honoré Champion, →ISBN:
- Le dernier type est le "cheval-jupon", un terme que l’ethnologue réserve à un déguisement pour une personne, constitué comme suit : le corps de la personne est entouré à la taille par un tissu — le jupon — recouvrant l’essentiel de ses jambes, une tête du cheval en bois […]
- The last type is the "hobby horse", a term which Ethnologue reserves for a disguise for a person, made as follows: the body of the person is surrounded at the waist by a cloth — the skirt — covering most of his legs; a horse's head of wood […]
Further reading
- “essentiel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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