existentia

Latin

Etymology

existēns +‎ -ia

Noun

existentia f (genitive existentiae); first declension

1. existence
   • 1738, Christian Wolff, Theologia Naturālis, II, §20:

     Existentia necessāria et contingēns reālitās est.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     Existence ist the necessary and encompassing reality.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	existentia	existentiae
genitive	existentiae	existentiārum
dative	existentiae	existentiīs
accusative	existentiam	existentiās
ablative	existentiā	existentiīs
vocative	existentia	existentiae

Related terms

• existō

Descendants

• Catalan: existència
• French: existence
• Galician: existencia
• Italian: esistenza
• Ligurian: existénsa
• Occitan: existéncia
• Piedmontese: esistensa
• Portuguese: existência
• Romanian: existență
• Spanish: existencia