instans

Present active participle of īnstō.

īnstāns (genitive īnstantis, adverb īnstanter); third-declension one-termination participle

1. standing or pressing upon
2. urging, pursuing, insisting
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.503–504:

     tālis erat Dīdō, tālem sē laeta ferēbat
     per mediōs, īnstāns operī rēgnīsque futūrīs.

     [Much like Diana] was Dido, [and] as such, with joy she was advancing amid the throng, and urging [them] to toil for the forthcoming kingdom [of Carthage].

3. (by extension) eager, urgent
4. (by extension) present

   Synonym: praesēns

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• “instans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “instans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "instans", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Latin īnstantia, via German Instanz.

instans m (definite singular instansen, indefinite plural instanser, definite plural instansene)

1. an authority
2. an instance

• “instans” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin īnstantia, via German Instanz.

instans m (definite singular instansen, indefinite plural instansar, definite plural instansane)

1. an authority
2. an instance

• “instans” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin īnstantia, via German Instanz.

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instans c

1. an instance

• förstainstansrätt

• instans in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• instans in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• instans in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)