From en.wiktionary.org:
[Essence]
** English
[Essence (disambiguation)]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en], from [en], from an artificial formation of [la], to
translate [en], from [grc], present participle of [grc].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. [en] The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
2. * 1713 September 21, [Joseph Addison] , 吴语: The Guardian (1713) , collected in _The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison_ , volume IV, Birmingham: [John Baskerville] , published 1761, page 263 (see https://books.google.com/books?id=ZutWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA263) :
3. *: CHARITY is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands, ſays an old writer. Gifts and alms are the expreſſions, not the ESSENCE of this virtue.
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. [en] The true nature of anything, not accident al or illusory .
8. Constituent substance.
9. * [book=I]
10. A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.
11. * [book=I]
12. * [en]
13. A significant feature of something.
14. The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.
15. An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter used for flavouring, or as a restorative.
16. * [page=78]
17. * [1=en]
18. Fragrance , a perfume .
19. * [en]
**** Synonyms
- [inherent nature] [en] , [en] ; See also Thesaurus:essence
- [significant feature] [en] , [en] ; See also Thesaurus:gist
- [fragrance] [en] , [en] ; See also Thesaurus:aroma
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[inherent nature]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Farefare: [gur] , [gur]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek:
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] ( [vi] )
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[true nature of something]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian:
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[constituent substance]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
[trans-bottom]
[spiritual being]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[significant feature]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[concentrated form of a plant]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[extract or concentrate used as flavouring]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- Maori: [mi]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[fragrance]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi] [for flavouring food]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Esperanto: [eo]
[trans-bottom]
**** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** French
*** Etymology
From [fr], from [fr]. Sense 2 very likely from Latin [la], 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
- [+]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [fr] [en]
2. petrol , gasoline
3. [en] , essential oil
**** Derived terms
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
**** Descendants
- [nl]
- [fi]
- [ro]
- [tr]
- [vi]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
*** Anagrams
- [fr]