çiençia

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Old Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Learned borrowing from Latin scientia, from sciēns + -ia.

    Noun

    çiençia f (plural çiençias)

    1. science
      • 1482, anonymous author, Synodicon hispanum, volume I, Galicia; republished as Antonio García y García, editor, Madrid: Editorial Católica, 1981, page 375:
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        [ [] e la mayor parte de los clerigos de nuestro obispado non solamente son ynorantes de theologia, derecho canonico, e de otras sciencias que a clerigos conviene saber [] ]
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    Descendants

    • Spanish: ciencia, esciencia (archaic)
      • Tagalog: siyensiya

    References

    • Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “çiençia”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 113