evidentia

Interlingua

Etymology

From English evidence, Spanish evidencia, French évidence, Portuguese evidência and Italian evidenza, all from Latin ēvidentia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /e.viˈden.t͡sja/, /-sja/, /-tja/

Noun

evidentia (plural evidentias)

  1. (chiefly uncountable) evidence

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin evidens
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin evidentia

    Coined by Cicero, from ēvidēns +‎ -ia. Via Proto-Indo-European *weyd- cognate with Russian свиде́тельство (svidételʹstvo).

    Noun

    ēvidentia f (genitive ēvidentiae); first declension

    1. evidence
    2. obviousness
    3. vividness

    Declension

    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative ēvidentia ēvidentiae
    genitive ēvidentiae ēvidentiārum
    dative ēvidentiae ēvidentiīs
    accusative ēvidentiam ēvidentiās
    ablative ēvidentiā ēvidentiīs
    vocative ēvidentia ēvidentiae

    Descendants

    • → Catalan: evidència
    • → English: evidence
    • → French: évidence
    • → Friulian: evidence
    • → Galician: evidencia
    • → Italian: evidenza
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: evidens
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: evidens
    • → Piedmontese: evidensa
    • → Portuguese: evidência
    • → Romanian: evidență
    • → Spanish: evidencia

    References

    • “evidentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “evidentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "evidentia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “evidentia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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