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Fun fact, the "essential" in essential oil actually refers to the fact that it emits a scent (essence), not that it is something important for your body to have
by BitwiseFool 4y ago
Fun fact, the "essential" in essential oil actually refers to the fact that it emits a scent (essence), not that it is something important for your body to have.
- spywaregorilla 4y agoHmmm... Are there any other examples of a suffix of "ce" transferring to "tial" to mean "about that thing"? Presence -> Presential Governance -> Governantial Fence -> Fential Evanescence -> Evanesential The latter is at least the best conceivable name for an Evanescence cover band.
- narag 4y agoSince you're curious: in the original Latin you'd be looking for words of 3rd declination that have "ent" and, depending on case, end with -ens (contraction of ent+s), -entis, -entia or something like that. I guess English took (ens -> ence) and (entia + l -> ential).
- mdisibio 4y agoReference -> Referential Difference -> Differential Prudence -> Prudential (now I understand the origin of this name)
- StrictDabbler 4y agoI think it's pretty common, you're just not reaching for the right set of "-ence" words. Residence -> residential, Evidence -> evidential... Jurisprudential, existential, penitential... The only thing is that about half have become "having characteristics related to the thing" instead of "about the thing". Words like consequential, pestilential, preferential have a common usage in this realm but still can be used in the "discussion about a thing" sense.
- spywaregorilla 4y agoAh yeah these are good.