See also: Sens, séns, and Sens.

EnglishEdit

NounEdit

sens

  1. plural of sen

AnagramsEdit

AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

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PronunciationEdit

  • (file)

NounEdit

sens (plural sense)

  1. scythe
    Synonym: seis

CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

PrepositionEdit

sens

  1. Alternative form of sense

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Further readingEdit

FrenchEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle French, from Old French sens, sen, san (sense, reason, direction), partly borrowed from Latin sensus (sense, sensation, feeling, meaning), from sentiō (feel, perceive); partly from Frankish *sinn (sense, reason, mental faculty, way, direction) (via Vulgar Latin *sennus), from Proto-West Germanic *sinn (mind, meaning), particularly in the sense of "direction". Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (to feel). Compare also French assener (to thrust out), forcené (maniac). More at send.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

sens m (plural sens)

  1. meaning, sense
    Synonym: signification
    le sens ultime de la viethe ultimate meaning of life
    Les mots ont un sens.Words have meanings.
  2. sense, sensation
    Synonyms: perception, sensation
  3. sense, intelligence
    bon senscommon sense
    Je préfère fréquenter ceux qui manquent de bon sens.(please add an English translation of this usage example)
  4. direction of circulation
    voie à sens unique(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    en tous sens, dans tous les sens(please add an English translation of this usage example)
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Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

sens

  1. inflection of sentir:
    1. first/second-person singular indicative present
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further readingEdit

LatvianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *senas, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (old). In Latvian, apparently only the adverbial form sen was conserved without interruption; in the first Latvian dictionaries, only vecs is consistently given as an adjective, whereas the occurrences of sens are few and dubious. Apparently the Latvian adjectival form of sen fell out of usage after Proto-Balto-Slavic times, and was recoined and successfully reintroduced only in the 19th century. Cognates include Lithuanian sẽnas (old, ancient), Sudovian sens (old), Old Irish sen, Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃 (sineigs) (< *sen-ei-), Sanskrit सन (sana, old), Ancient Greek ἕνος (hénos, old, last year's), Latin senex (old in age, senior).[1]

AdjectiveEdit

sens (definite senais, comparative senāks, superlative vissenākais, adverb sen)

  1. ancient, old, of long ago (many years, centuries, ages ago; the people of such times, their institutions, culture, etc.)
    seni laiki, tāla pagatneancient times, distant past
    senā Grieķijaancient Greece
    senā Romaancient Rome
    sens rokrakstsancient manuscript
    sena tradīcijaancient tradition
    sena valodaancient language
    sens darbarīksancient tool
    seni augi, dzīvniekiancient plants, animals
    senie latviešithe ancient Latvians
    senie eģiptiešithe ancient Egyptians
    sena ciltsancient tribe
  2. old (from relatively long ago; separated from the present by a (subjectively) significant amount of time)
    sena skolasbiedru draudzībaan old schoolmate friendship
    sens paziņaan old acquaintance
    piedzīvojumu žanrs kinomākslā ir sens un pārbaudītsthe adventure genre in film is old and tried

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “sens”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Middle FrenchEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French sens.

NounEdit

sens m (plural sens)

  1. sense (method for a living being to gather data about the world)
  2. sense (ability to reason)

DescendantsEdit

  • French: sens

OccitanEdit

PronunciationEdit

PrepositionEdit

sens

  1. (Gascony, Languedoc, Limousin) Alternative form of sense[1]

NounEdit

sens m (plural sens)

  1. (Gascony, Languedoc) sense[2][3]

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 556.
  2. ^ Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 123.
  3. ^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 556.
  • Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN,page 124.

Old FrenchEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Partly borrowed from Latin sensus (sense, sensation, feeling, meaning), from sentiō (feel, perceive); partly (via Vulgar Latin *sennus) from Frankish *sinn (sense, mental faculty, way, direction). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (to feel). More at sens.

NounEdit

sens m (oblique plural sens, nominative singular sens, nominative plural sens)

  1. reason; ability to reason or think

SynonymsEdit

DescendantsEdit

Old IrishEdit

NounEdit

sens m

  1. Alternative spelling of séns: alternative form of síans

MutationEdit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
sens ṡens unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

PolishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin sēnsus.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /sɛns/, /sɛw̃s/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛns
  • Syllabification: sens

NounEdit

sens m inan

  1. sense (meaning or reason)

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

adjective
adverb
nouns

Further readingEdit

  • sens in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • sens in Polish dictionaries at PWN

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French sens, Latin sensus.

NounEdit

sens n (plural sensuri)

  1. sense, meaning
  2. reason, logic
  3. direction

SudovianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *senas, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos. Compare Lithuanian sẽnas (old), Latvian sȩns (ancient); however, Latvian vȩcs (old), Old Prussian urs (old).[1][2]

AdjectiveEdit

ſenſ

  1. old
    Antonyms: iauniſ (young), nau (new)

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985), “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica (in Lithuanian), volume 21, issue 1, page 78: “ſenſ ‘senas, l. stary’ 171.”
  2. ^ sẽnas” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. ſenſ adj. ‘alt’”.