consubstantial

English

Etymology

From Latin consubstāntiālis, from con- +‎ substāntia (“substance”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒnsəbˈstanʃəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑnsəbˈstænʃəl/
• Hyphenation: con‧sub‧stan‧tial

Adjective

consubstantial (comparative more consubstantial, superlative most consubstantial)

1. Of the same substance or essence.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 18, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     I have no more made my booke, then my booke hath made me. A booke consubstantiall to his Author […].

   • 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 25:

     Thus, the characteristic properties of animals and plants were not only regarded as representations, but as actual emanations of the divine power, consubstantial with his own essence.

Usage notes

• Used especially of the three persons of the Christian Trinity.

Derived terms

• consubstantialism
• consubstantialist
• consubstantiality
• consubstantially

Related terms

• coessential

Translations

of the same substance

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: էակ (ēak)

• French: consubstantiel (fr) m
• Greek: ομοούσιος (el) m (omooúsios)
• Italian: consustanziale (it), consostanziale
• Manx: covreeoil
• Serbo-Croatian: istobitan m
• Spanish: consustancial (es)

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989