substance; physical matter · substance (the essential part of anything) · the power to influence others or to be groundbreaking
çekim: çoğul substâncias
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin substantia (“substance, essence”), from substāns, present active participle of substō (“stand under; exist”), from sub + stō (“stand”). Possibly a doublet of sustância /sustança.
köken: Borrowed from French narcotique, from Medieval Latin narcōticum, from Ancient Greek ναρκόω (narkóō, “Ι benumb”), from νάρκη (nárkē, “numbness, torpor”).
köken: From Proto-Ugric *serV, from Proto-Uralic *śerɜ. For the development of meaning from “order” to “tool”, compare Proto-Slavic *rędъ whose West Slavic reflexes can also mean “tool”.