-ence
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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-ence suffix — (O)F. — L.
-entia, f.
-ent- -ENT with abstr. suffix. In popL.
-entia was superseded by
-antia, repr. in OF. by
-ance, e.g.
aparance APPEARANCE,
contenance COUNTENANCE. Later, L. sbs. in
-ntia were adopted in F. with the L. vowels, e.g.
absence,
élégance,
présence, and both classes were adopted in ME. with their F. forms and meanings; but in early mod. Eng. some sbs. in
-ance have been altered back to
-ence, and all sbs. adopted since have followed the L. forms. The result is that mod. spelling shows many variations, e.g.
assistance,
existence,
resistance,
subsistence.
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