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-ence
suff.（后缀）
  1. State or condition:
    表示状态或条件：
    dependence.
    依靠
  2. Action:
    表示动作：
    emergence.
    浮现

语源
  1. Middle English
    中古英语
  2. from Latin -entia from -ēns [-ent]
    源自 拉丁语 -entia 源自 -ēns [后缀，表“动作”]
  3. and from Old French -ance [-ance]
    并源自 古法语 -ance [后缀，表“动作，性质，状态”]
-ence or -ency

suffix forming nouns

indicating an action, state, condition, or quality
⇒ benevolence
⇒ residence
⇒ patience

Origin

via Old French from Latin -entia, from -ēns, present participial ending

-ence

Word Origin
1
a noun suffix equivalent to -ance, corresponding to the suffix -ent in adjectives: abstinence; continence; dependence; difference.
Origin
Middle English < Old French < Latin -entia, equivalent to -ent- -ent + -ia -y3

Related Words

  • deference
  • -ency
  • -escence
  • abhorrence
  • abscondence
  • abstinence
-encea noun suffix equivalent to -ance, and corresponding to -ent in adjectives, as in abstinence, consistence, dependence, difference.
[French, alteration of -ance -ance by association with Latin -entia, noun suffix]
-ence
noun suffix
 ETYMOLOGY  Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin -entia, from -ent-, -ens, present participle ending + -ia -y (II)
1. action or process
    emergence
: instance of an action or process
    reference
2. quality or state
    despondence
-ence
/əns/  
suffix
forming nouns ［构成名词］
1.
denoting a quality or an instance of it
表示“性质”, “情况”：

impertinence.

2.
denoting an action or its result
表示“动作”, “结果”：

reference

reminiscence.

词源
from French -ence, from Latin -entia, -antia （from present participial stems -ent -, -ant -）. Since the 16th cent. many inconsistencies have occurred in the use of -ence and -ance.
-ence suffixa. Fr. -ence, ad. L. -entia, forming abstr. ns., usually of quality, rarely of action, on ppl. stems in -ent-, e.g. sapient-em knowing, sapient-ia knowingness, sapience; audient-em hearing, audient-ia the process of hearing, audience. As the ppl. stem had -ent-, -ant-, the derivative ns. had -entia (prūdentia), -antia (īnfantia); but all these were levelled in OFr. to -ance, in words that survived in popular use, or were formed analogically on the pr. pple. in -ant; as aidance, assistance, complaisance, contenance, nuisance, parlance, séance. These were ns. of action or process, the value with which the suffix was retained in Fr. as a living formative. But subsequently other L. words in -ntia, which had not survived in the living language, were readopted on the analogy of these, but with -ence or -ance according to the L. vowel, e.g. absence, clémence, diligence, élégance, présence, providence, prudence, tempérance, violence. These were ns. of quality or state; all Fr. words in -ence are of this class. Both classes were adodpted in ME. in their actual Fr. forms and senses, which they generally still retain; but since 1500, some of those in -ance have been altered back to -ence after L. All words since adopted from or formed on L., follow L. precedent as to -ence or -ance. The result is that the modern spelling of individual words, and still more of groups of cogn. words, is uncertain and discordant; cf. assistance, consistence, existence, resistance, subsistence; attendance, superintendence; ascendant, -ent, -ancy, -ency, condescendence; dependant, -ent, -ance, -ence, independence; appearance, apparent; pertinence, appurtenance. In sense, words in -nce are partly nouns of action, as in OFr., partly of state or quality, as in L. The latter idea is more distinctly expressed by the variant -ncy (see -y = -ie:—-ia) which has been formed in Eng. as a direct adaptation of L. -ntia; see -ency, -ancy.
-ence
see -ance.
☞ -ance, -ence
☞ -ence, -ency
-ence /(ə)ns/ suffix.
ORIGIN: French from Latin (i) -entia, from pres. ppl stems in -ent- -ent, (ii) -antia: see -ance.
Forming nouns of quality (or instances of it), as congruence, impertinence, sapience, or of action, as reference, reminiscence. Since the 16th cent. many words ending in -ance from French have been altered back to -ence after Latin, and more recent words have taken -ance or -ence according to the Latin vowel (hence much inconsistency, as dependence or dependance, resistance, subsistence). Cf. -ency.
-ence
suffix forming nouns chiefly from verbs.
(added to verbs) the act or fact of _____ing: Abhorrence = the act or fact of abhorring. Dependence = the act or fact of depending.
(added to adjectives ending in -ent) the quality or condition of being _____ent: Prudence = the quality of being prudent. Absence = the state of being absent.
[< Old French -ence< Latin -entia, < -ent-, present participle stem + -ia, a noun suffix]
Usage-ence is the noun suffix often corresponding to the adjective suffix -ent. See also -ency.
-ence
\ən(t)s, ən(t)s, in some words “ or -ˌen(t)s; “-erence” is often ərn(t)s\ noun suffix
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -entia, from -ent-, -ens -ent + -ia -y
1. : action or process
 < abstinence >
 < emergence >
 < confluence >
: instance of an action or process
 < reference >
 < reminiscence >
2. : quality or state
 < condescendence >
 < dependence >
: one having a (specified) quality or being in a (specified) state
 < standing on an eminence >

-ence
  • -ance, ⠰⠑

    • Suffix

    1. non-productive Same as -ance; having the state or condition of.
      dependence

    Etymology

    From Middle English -ence, from Old French -ence, from Latin -entia.

    Derived terms

    English words suffixed with -ence


    后缀：-ence [名词后缀]

    与形容词后缀-ent相对应（如difference与different），构成抽象名词，表示性质、状态、行为、义同-ency，有此词具有-ence和-ency两种后缀形式（如innocence=innocency）

    existence 存在，生存

    insistence 坚持

    dependence 依赖

    emergence 浮现，出现

    confidence 信任

    persistence 坚持，持续

    difference 不同，区别

    despondence 沮丧，泄气

    innocence 无罪，优秀

    excellence 杰出，优秀

    occurrence 发生，出现

    convergence 会聚，集中

    coherence 粘着
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