Talk:essential
This page needs synonyms. -Rouleau
Recently saw this word on the label of a bottle of some New-Age quackery nonsense. I think it means "essential oil mixed with water", or something like that. Might not meet CFI at this point. Equinox ◑ 22:08, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
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(Notifying Metaknowledge, Fay Freak, Brutal Russian, JohnC5): Can't find either one in any dictionary. Would be hard to find essentiāl in Google Books in any case. (BTW the entry wrongly has long -āl in nominative singular.) lūminār appears to be a misspelling for lūmināre. Benwing2 (talk) 01:57, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
- @Benwing2 It is essentiāle, gen. pl. essentiālium, adjective and noun being of this form, the adjective which we have as essentiālis. Very common in philosophical and juristic jargon. essentiāl sounds wrong. The lemma form has been misconstructed also with the gloss “(essential qualities)” as any adjective can in Latin be used in the plural to denote “X-quality things” Delete/move speedily. Fay Freak (talk) 02:05, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
- @Fay Freak Thanks. I have moved the noun to essentiāle and fixed up the definition; please check the defn as I may be wrong. Benwing2 (talk) 03:58, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
- luminar does not exist as a Latin word. Probably a typo for the existing noun lūmināre, with which the contested entry shares the definition and in most cases the declension. This entry should be deleted. --Lambiam 11:48, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
- Deleted both. Benwing2 (talk) 14:34, 5 July 2019 (UTC)