ens

See also: ENS, -ens, Ens., and -ēns

English

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ɛnz/

Etymology 1

From Late Latin ēns (“thing”), from esse (“to be”). See entity.

Noun

ens (plural enses or entia)

(philosophy) An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute.
- 1860, John Henry Macmahon, A treatise on metaphysics: chiefly in reference to revealed religion, page 195:
  the Nature of the Supreme Ens
(chemistry, alchemy, now historical) Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; an essence, an active principle.
- 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow 2007, p. 245:
  Here he states that there are five ‘active principles’ – the five Enses or entia – that influence our bodies and give rise to disease […].

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Noun

ens

plural of en

Anagrams

ESN, NES, SNe, Sen, Sen., sen

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əns/

Pronoun

ens (proclitic, enclitic nos, contracted enclitic 'ns)

us (direct or indirect object)

Declension

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

	strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
singular		proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
1st person	jo, mi³	em, m’	-me, ’m	em, m’	-me, ’m	meu
1st person majestic¹	nós	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
2nd person	tu	et, t’	-te, ’t	et, t’	-te, ’t	teu
2nd person formal¹	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person very formal²	vostè	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person masculine	ell	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person feminine	ella	la, l’⁴	-la	li	-li	seu
3rd person neuter		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
plural
1st person	nosaltres	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
2nd person	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person formal²	vostès	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person masculine	ells	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person feminine	elles	les	-les	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive		en, n’	-ne, ’n
locative		hi	-hi
¹⁾ Behaves grammatically as plural. ²⁾ Behaves grammatically as third person.			³⁾ Only as object of a preposition. ⁴⁾ Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

Etymology 2

From Latin ens, compare Spanish ente.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛns/

Noun

ens m (plural ens)

organization, entity, institution
ens públic
public institution

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse eins, from Middle Low German eines.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /eːns/, [eːˀns]

Adjective

ens

Pronoun

ens

genitive of en

Latin

Etymology

Formed as a present participle of sum (“to be”) in Medieval Latin (and therefore unknown in the Classical period) by using the bare present participial ending -ēns of second and third conjugation verbs, as an analogy to the Ancient Greek present participle ὤν (ṓn) which falsely appears to be the same bare suffix but etymologically corresponds to sōns, both from *h₁es- (“to be”). See also essentia for a similar formation.

The original present participle sōns had taken on the meaning "guilty" in the Classical period, but the still productive combining form -sēns present in the verbs absum (absēns (“absent”)) and praesum (praesēns (“present”)) was ignored in creating this form.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ens/, [ẽːs]

Noun

ēns n (genitive entis); third declension

being (Medieval Latin)
- 13th c., Boetius of Dacia
  Ens autem aeternum nullum sequitur in duratione; ergo mundus non est aeternus. - Nothing follows the Eternal Being (God) in duration; therefore, the world isn't eternal.

Descendants

Italian: ente
Portuguese: ente
Spanish: ente

Participle

ēns m, f, n (genitive entis); third declension

being

Declension

Third declension neuter.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	ens	enta
genitive	entis	entum
dative	entī	entibus
accusative	ens	enta
ablative	ente	entibus
vocative	ens	enta

Derived terms

entitās (Mediaeval Latin)

References

ens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
ens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French ens.

Preposition

ens

in; inside

Old French

Alternative forms

enz

Etymology

From Latin intus.

Preposition

ens

in; inside

Synonyms

dedens

Descendants

Middle French: ens

Swedish

Adverb

ens

even

Derived terms

Noun

ens

indefinite genitive singular of en

Pronoun

ens

genitive of the indefinite pronoun "man"; one's

Declension

Swedish personal pronouns

	subject	object	possessive
singular	full	full	common	neuter	plural
1st person	jag	mig	min	mitt	mina
2nd person	du	dig	din	ditt	dina
3rd person masculine	han	honom	hans
3rd person feminine	hon	henne	hennes
3rd person gender-neutral	hen*	hen/henom	hens*
3rd person common	den	den	dess
3rd person neuter	det	det	dess
3rd person indefinite	man/en	en	ens
3rd person reflexive	—	sig	sin	sitt	sina
plural
1st person	vi	oss	vår	vårt	våra
2nd person	ni	er eder (dated)	er	ert	era
3rd person	de	dem	deras
3rd person reflexive	—	sig	sin	sitt	sina

*Not universally accepted.

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