sapiens
See also: Sapiens
English
editEtymology
editFrom translingual Homo sapiens, from Latin sapiēns, present active participle of sapiō (“discern, be capable of discerning”).
Noun
editsapiens (plural sapiens or sapientes)
- A human being (Homo sapiens).
- 2000, William H. Libaw, How we got to be human: subjective minds with objective bodies, page 277:
- The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food.
- 2005, Sherwood L. Washburn, Classification and Human Evolution, page 335:
- Even if we assume that the rate of change was slow and the evolving population large, we must still assume that sapiens was rather isolated.
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editPresent active participle of sapiō (“I discern”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsa.pi.ens/, [ˈs̠äpiẽːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.pi.ens/, [ˈsäːpiens]
Participle
editsapiēns (genitive sapientis, comparative sapientior, superlative sapientissimus, adverb sapienter); third-declension one-termination participle
- discerning, wise, judicious
- discrete
- (masculine substantive) a wise man, sage, philosopher
- (Can we date this quote?) Anonymous
- Sapiens nihil affirmat quod non probat ― a wise man asserts nothing which he does not (ap)prove
- (Can we date this quote?) Anonymous
Declension
editThird-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | sapiēns | sapientēs | sapientia | ||
Genitive | sapientis | sapientium | |||
Dative | sapientī | sapientibus | |||
Accusative | sapientem | sapiēns | sapientēs sapientīs |
sapientia | |
Ablative | sapiente sapientī1 |
sapientibus | |||
Vocative | sapiēns | sapientēs | sapientia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “sapiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sapiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sapiens 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)
- sapiens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a wise man is in no way affected by this: hoc nihil ad sapientem pertinet
- it is incompatible with the nature of a wise man; the wise are superior to such things: hoc in sapientem non cadit
- what do we understand by 'a wise man': quem intellegimus sapientem?
- a wise man is in no way affected by this: hoc nihil ad sapientem pertinet
Middle English
editNoun
editsapiens
- Alternative form of sapience
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