Essential etymology

English

English word essential comes from Ancient Greek εἰμί, Ancient Greek ὀυτ-, Proto-Italic *ezom (Be.), Proto-Indo-European *bʰowHéyeti, Proto-Italic *som, Old Latin esom

Etymology of essential

Detailed word origin of essential

Dictionary entry Language Definition
εἰμί Ancient Greek (grc)
ὀυτ- Ancient Greek (grc)
*ezom Proto-Italic (itc-pro) Be.
*bʰowHéyeti Proto-Indo-European (ine)
*som Proto-Italic (itc-pro)
esom Old Latin (itc-ola)
παλαιός Ancient Greek (grc)
*fuiō Proto-Italic (itc-pro) To become.
οὐσία Ancient Greek (grc)
fui Latin (lat)
essentia Latin (lat) Essence, being.
essentialis Late Latin (LL)
essential English (en) (biology) necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested. (medicine) Idiopathic.. (of a lamination of a 3-manifold) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the [...]

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