quintaesencia
Spanish, noun
quintaesencia is spelled Q-U-I-N-T-A-E-S-E-N-C-I-A (13 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 66,744th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quintaesencia is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “quintessence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of quintaesenciar. With an accent, quintaesenciá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of quintaesenciar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “En la cosmología aristotélica, la sustancia que forma los astros y, en general, las esferas supralunares de…”.
What does quintaesencia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininequintessence
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of quintaesenciar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. En la cosmología aristotélica, la sustancia que forma los astros y, en general, las esferas supralunares de los cielos, por oposición a los cuatro elementos de Empédocles que participarían de los cuerpos sublunares. 2. Entre los alquimistas, principio fundamental de la composición de los cuerpos, por cuyo medio esperaban operar la transmutación de los metales. 3. Lo más puro, más fino y acendrado de una cosa. 4. Forma hipotética de energía que se postula para explicar las observaciones del universo en expansión acelerada.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of quintaesencia
- quintaesencias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to quintaesencia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quintaesencia in Spanish?
quintaesencia appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).