sciens
Latin
editEtymology
editPresent active participle of sciō (“I can, know, understand”).
Participle
editsciēns (genitive scientis, comparative scientior, superlative scientissimus, adverb scienter); third-declension one-termination participle
- knowing, understanding
- conscious, aware
- knowledgeable, skilled
- (figuratively, of a woman) having sexual relations with a man.
- (adjective equivalent to an adverb) knowingly, purposely, consciously
Declension
editThird-declension participle.
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
editDescendants
edit- → English: scient
- Italian: sciente
- → Middle English: scient
- → Old French: escient
- French: escient
- Old Spanish: ciente, esciente
- → Portuguese: ciente
- → Sicilian: scienti
References
edit- “sciens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sciens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sciens in Gaffiot, 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: bene latine doctus or sciens
- (ambiguous) to acquire knowledge of a subject: scientia comprehendere aliquid
- (ambiguous) to enrich a person's knowledge: scientia augere aliquem
- (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
- (ambiguous) geographical knowledge: regionum terrestrium aut maritimarum scientia
- a good Latin scholar: bene latine doctus or sciens
Middle English
editNoun
editsciens
- Alternative form of science