conscius
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From conscio (“I am privy to”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkon.ski.us/, [ˈkõːs̠kiʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.ʃi.us/, [ˈkɔn̠ʲʃius]
Adjective edit
cōnscius (feminine cōnscia, neuter cōnscium); first/second-declension adjective
- conscious
- aware of, privy to
- guilty
- participant in a thing, an accessory, accomplice
- Synonym: minister
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | cōnscius | cōnscia | cōnscium | cōnsciī | cōnsciae | cōnscia | |
| Genitive | cōnsciī | cōnsciae | cōnsciī | cōnsciōrum | cōnsciārum | cōnsciōrum | |
| Dative | cōnsciō | cōnsciō | cōnsciīs | ||||
| Accusative | cōnscium | cōnsciam | cōnscium | cōnsciōs | cōnsciās | cōnscia | |
| Ablative | cōnsciō | cōnsciā | cōnsciō | cōnsciīs | |||
| Vocative | cōnscie | cōnscia | cōnscium | cōnsciī | cōnsciae | cōnscia | |
Descendants edit
- Italian: conscio
- Portuguese: cônscio, concho
- Romanian: conștient
- → English: conscious (learned)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kūskī, *kų̄skī (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- “conscius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “conscius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conscius 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 conscience: mens bene sibi conscia
- a guilty conscience: animus male sibi conscius
- to be conscious of no ill deed: nullius culpae sibi conscium esse
- a good conscience: mens bene sibi conscia