The corpus record — Latin

substantia

substantia · f

that of which a thing consists

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Utrum Pater Et Filius Ac Spiritus Sanctus De Divinitate Substantialiter Praedicentur Liber 16 · 299.63/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 52 · 89.16/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 21 · 72.29/10k
Quomodo Substantiae in Eo Quod Sint Bonae Sint Cum Non Sint Substantialia Bona 8 · 58.27/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 91 · 40.15/10k
De Fide Catholica 7 · 36.31/10k
Adversus Praxean 45 · 30.44/10k
De Anima 71 · 29.86/10k
De Carne Christi 25 · 26.3/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 28 · 25.21/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 14 · 21.97/10k
Adversus Marcionem 114 · 13.76/10k

Densest 12 of 49 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

substantĭa — Lewis & Short

substantĭa, ae, f.substo,

I that of which a thing consists, the being, essence, contents, material, substance (post - Aug.): hominis, Quint. 7, 2, 5: rerum, id. 2, 21, 1: placidae et altae mentis, id. 6, prooem. § 7: rhetorices, id. 2, 15, 34: de substantiā aut de qualitate, id. 3, 6, 38: singula animalia singulas habere debent substantias, Sen. Ep. 113, 4: esse diversae substantiae, Front. Strat. 4 praef.: earum rerum pretium non in substantiā, sed in arte positum est, in the material, Dig. 50, 16, 14: delebo omnem substantiam, every thing that exists, Vulg. Gen. 7, 4.—

II Esp., fortune, substance, property: sine substantiā facultatum, without store of riches, without fortune, Tac. Or. 8: substantia omnis paternorum bonorum, Aur. Vict. Or. 19: rei familiaris, Paul. Sent. 2, 29; Dig. 36, 1, 16 al.—Also absol., worldly goods, Vulg. Gen. 36, 6; id. 1 Esd. 1, 6.

In the wild

substantiam Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.40
substantiam Tertullian, De Fuga in Persecutione 2
substantiam Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 1.28
substantia Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 51
substantia Boethius, Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 4
substantiae Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 7

6 of 602 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.