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- German · calque ofSeiendes
- English todayessent
Pseudo-Latinism, coined by Ralph Manheim in his 1959 English translation of Martin Heidegger’s Einführung in die Metaphysik to render German Seiendes (as distinct from Sein) on the basis of *essens, a pseudo-Latin present participle of sum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.