LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininefirst declension

ēvidentia

ēvidentia f (genitive ēvidentiae)

Meaning

  1. evidence
  2. obviousness
  3. vividness

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativeēvidentiaēvidentiae
genitiveēvidentiaeēvidentiārum
dativeēvidentiaeēvidentiīs
accusativeēvidentiamēvidentiās
ablativeēvidentiāēvidentiīs
vocativeēvidentiaēvidentiae

ēvĭdentĭa, ae, f. evidens,
I. clearness, distinctness.—In rhet. lang., clearness, perspicuity; used by Cicero along with perspicuitas, as a transl. of ἐνάργεια. Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17; cf. Quint. 6, 2, 32; 4, 2, 63; 9, 2, 40.—
II. A proof: magna suae ostensionis, of his own manifestation, Vulg. 2 Macc. 3, 24.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos 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).

Descendants
  • Catalanevidència
  • Englishevidence
  • Frenchévidence
  • Italianevidenza
  • Portugueseevidência
  • Romanianevidență
  • Spanishevidencia
  • Friulianevidence
  • Galicianevidencia
  • Norwegian Bokmålevidens

In English words that came into English from ēvidentia

  • evidenceēvidentia
  • evidentialēvidentiālis
  • evidentiaryēvidentia

Quick answers

What does ēvidentia mean in Latin?
ēvidentia, a noun, means “evidence; obviousness; vividness”.
What is the genitive of ēvidentia?
The genitive singular is ēvidentiae. ēvidentia is feminine, first declension.
Which English words come from ēvidentia?
English words that go back to Latin ēvidentia include evidence, evidentiary and evidential.