sciens
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Present active participle ofsciō(“I can, know, understand”).
Participle
[edit]sciēns(genitivescientis,comparativescientior,superlativescientissimus,adverbscienter);third-declensionone-termination participle
- knowing,understanding
- conscious,aware
- knowledgeable,skilled
- (figuratively,of a woman)havingsexualrelations with a man.
- (adjective equivalent to an adverb)knowingly,purposely,consciously
Declension
[edit]Third-declensionparticiple.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | sciēns | scientēs | scientia | ||
Genitive | scientis | scientium | |||
Dative | scientī | scientibus | |||
Accusative | scientem | sciēns | scientēs scientīs |
scientia | |
Ablative | sciente scientī1 |
scientibus | |||
Vocative | sciēns | scientēs | scientia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- →English:scient
- Italian:sciente
- →Middle English:scient
- →Old French:escient
- French:escient
- Old Spanish:ciente,esciente
- →Portuguese:ciente
- →Sicilian:scienti
References
[edit]- “sciens”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sciens”,inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary,New York: Harper & Brothers
- sciensinGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français,Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1],London:Macmillan and Co.
- a good Latin scholar:benelatine doctusorsciens
- (ambiguous)to acquire knowledge of a subject:scientia comprehendere aliquid
- (ambiguous)to enrich a person's knowledge:scientia augere aliquem
- (ambiguous)logic, dialectic:dialectica(-aeor-orum) (pure Latindisserendi ratio et scientia)
- (ambiguous)geographical knowledge:regionum terrestrium aut maritimarum scientia
- a good Latin scholar:benelatine doctusorsciens
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]sciens
- Alternative form ofscience