Reconstruction:Latin/sennus

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

*sinnus

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Frankish *sinn (“sense, direction”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnnos/

Noun edit

*sennus m (oblique *sennum); second declension (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

sense, reason
direction, way

Declension edit

	singular	plural
nominative	*/ˈsɛnnos/	*/ˈsɛnni/
oblique	*/ˈsɛnnu/	*/ˈsɛnnos/

Descendants edit

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: senno
Padanian:
- Piedmontese: sign, sògn (“temple”)
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: sens, sen, san (partially from Latin sensus)
  - Middle French: sens
    - French: sens
  - Picard: sins
  - → Middle English: sense, sence, sens
    - English: sense, sence
      - → Afrikaans: sense
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: seny
- Old Occitan: sen, senn
  - Occitan: sen
  - → Old Galician-Portuguese: sen
    - Fala: sen
    - Galician: sen
  - → Old Spanish: sen
    - Spanish: sien
- Old Occitan: sens (partially from Latin sensus)
  - Occitan: sens