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instans

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Latin

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Etymology

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Present active participle of īnstō.

Participle

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īnstāns (genitive īnstantis, adverb īnstanter); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. standing or pressing upon
  2. urging, pursuing, insisting
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.503–504:
      tālis erat Dīdō, tālem sē laeta ferēbat
      per mediōs, īnstāns operī rēgnīsque futūrīs.
      [Much like Diana] was Dido, [and] as such, with joy she was advancing amid the throng, and urging [them] to toil for the forthcoming kingdom [of Carthage].
  3. (by extension) eager, urgent
  4. (by extension) present
    Synonym: praesēns

Declension

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Third-declension participle.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative īnstāns īnstantēs īnstantia
genitive īnstantis īnstantium
dative īnstantī īnstantibus
accusative īnstantem īnstāns īnstantēs
īnstantīs
īnstantia
ablative īnstante
īnstantī1
īnstantibus
vocative īnstāns īnstantēs īnstantia

1When used purely as an adjective.

References

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  • instans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • instans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • instans 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)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Latin īnstantia, via German Instanz.

Noun

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instans m (definite singular instansen, indefinite plural instanser, definite plural instansene)

  1. an authority
  2. an instance

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin īnstantia, via German Instanz.

Noun

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instans m (definite singular instansen, indefinite plural instansar, definite plural instansane)

  1. an authority
  2. an instance

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Latin īnstantia, via German Instanz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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instans c

  1. an instance

Declension

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