substantia
Interlingua
Noun
substantia (plural substantias)
- substance
Latin
Etymology
From substāns, present active participle of substō (“stand under; exist”), from sub + stō (“stand”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /subˈstan.ti.a/, [s̠ʊpˈs̠t̪än̪t̪iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /subˈstan.t͡si.a/, [subˈst̪änt̪͡s̪iä]
Noun
substantia f (genitive substantiae); first declension
- substance, essence, material, contents
- fortune, property, possessions
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | substantia | substantiae |
| Genitive | substantiae | substantiārum |
| Dative | substantiae | substantiīs |
| Accusative | substantiam | substantiās |
| Ablative | substantiā | substantiīs |
| Vocative | substantia | substantiae |
Derived terms
- substantiālis
- substantiola
- substantīvus
Related terms
- stō
- substāns
- substantiālitās
- substantīvālis
- substō
Descendants
- → Catalan: substància
- Corsican: sustanza
- Dalmatian: sostuanza
- → Danish: substans
- → English: substance
- French: substance
- Friulian: sustance
- Galician: substancia
- Italian: sostanza
- → Old Irish: substaint
- Irish: substaint
- Scottish Gaelic: susbaint
- Occitan: substença
- Portuguese: sustança, sustância, substância
- Romanian: substanță
- → Russian: субста́нция (substáncija)
- Sardinian: sustanzia
- Spanish: substancia
References
- “substantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “substantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- substantia 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)
- substantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette