To be: L.

The answer

ESSE

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

Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2002; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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 101 word - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• 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, 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.

• Otherwise - ELSE, used 1,353 times
• Give off - EMIT, used 874 times
• At any time - EVER, used 696 times
• Therefore - ERGO, used 684 times
• Gaelic - ERSE, used 679 times
• Raison d'___ - ETRE, used 658 times

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