Latin 101 word

The answer

ESSE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ESSE answer page.

Used 13 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• AMO (112 uses in xd)
• AMAT (100 uses in xd)
• AMAS (25 uses in xd)
• ERAT (17 uses in xd)

Other clues for ESSE

Every other clue in this collection answered by ESSE, most used first.

• In __ (actually) - used 104 times, most recently in 2023
• Being, to Brutus - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
• Latin being - used 96 times, most recently in 2026
• To be, to Brutus - used 89 times, most recently in 2025
• Being: Lat. - used 71 times, most recently in 2015
• To be: Lat. - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
• Actual being - used 66 times, most recently in 2007
• Being - used 65 times, most recently in 2010
• Latin 101 verb - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• In ___ (existing) - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Start of North Carolina's motto - used 44 times, most recently in 2014
• To be, in old Rome - used 39 times, most recently in 2019
• To be: Latin. - used 38 times, most recently in 1989
• Existence - used 37 times, most recently in 2008
• Existence: Lat. - used 37 times, most recently in 2009
• To be, to Caesar - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Latin infinitive - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
• To be, in Latin - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• To be, to Tiberius - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Sum, ___, fui - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Latin I verb - used 23 times, most recently in 2021
• Abstract being - used 22 times, most recently in 1997
• "___ Quam Videri," N.C. motto - used 21 times, most recently in 2014
• Latin "to be" - used 19 times, most recently in 2021
• "___ quam videri" (North Carolina's motto) - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• In ___. - used 18 times, most recently in 2004
• ___ quam videri - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• "___ quam videri" (North Carolina motto) - used 17 times, most recently in 2021
• Common Latin verb - used 15 times, most recently in 1999
• ___ est percipi - used 15 times, most recently in 2017
• Basic Latin verb. - used 14 times, most recently in 2013
• To live, to Livy - used 14 times, most recently in 1994
• Caesar's existence - used 13 times, most recently in 2013
• Latin existence - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
• Latin for "to be" - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Start of N.C.'s motto - used 12 times, most recently in 1993
• In ___ (actually existing) - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• In ___ (at heart) - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
• Sum, ___, fui, futurus. - used 11 times, most recently in 1966
• Being, in Latin - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Being: L. - used 10 times, most recently in 2002
• In ___: in actuality - used 10 times, most recently in 2004
• To be, in ancient Rome - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• To be, to Cato - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
• Being: Latin. - used 9 times, most recently in 2000
• Being, to Caesar - used 9 times, most recently in 2010
• Chimney on das Haus - used 9 times, most recently in 1990
• Common Latin word - used 9 times, most recently in 1977
• In -- (really) - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Latin verb. - used 9 times, most recently in 1977
• To be, to Tacitus - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
• Being, to Aquinas - used 8 times, most recently in 1993
• Being, to Claudius - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Being, to Nero - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
• Being, to Ovid - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• In ___ (actual) - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• In __ (in actual being) - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Roman being - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• To be, in Latin 101 - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• To be: L. - used 7 times, most recently in 2002
• To be, to Claudius - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• To be, to Nero - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Verb form for Virgil - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Being, in old Rome - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• Being, in philosophy - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Caesar's being - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• De bene ___ (legal phrase) - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• De bene __: provisionally - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• First word of North Carolina's motto - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Forum infinitive - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Latin 101 infinitive - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Latin I lesson word - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Latin I word - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• To be, to Livy - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Golden Rule word - UNTO, used 299 times
• Division word - INTO, used 273 times
• French 101 verb - ETRE, used 220 times
• Word-of-mouth - ORAL, used 184 times
• Latin love - AMOR, used 151 times
• Choice word - ELSE, used 147 times

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