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名詞

esse (複数形 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.

関連する語

参照

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Esse”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 294.

Latin

語源 1

Form of the verb sum (“[I] am; [I] exist”); from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“I am, I exist”).

発音

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

動詞

esse

1. present active infinitive of sum

名詞

esse m (indeclinable)

1. (Medieval Latin) state, condition

発音

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

動詞

ēsse

1. present active infinitive of edō

参照

• “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 かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)