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Latin
Etymology
From conscio (“I am privy to”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
cōnscius (feminine cōnscia, neuter cōnscium); first/second-declension adjective
- conscious
- aware of, knowing of, conscious of, privy to
- Synonyms: cōnsciēns, cognōscēns, scius, sciēns
- Antonyms: ignārus, ignōrāns, īnscius, nescius, nesciēns, expers
- aware of, knowing of, conscious of, privy to
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.519–520:
- testātur moritūra deōs et cōnscia fātī / sīdera
- about to die, invokes the gods and the stars aware of destiny
(sīdera cōnscia alludes to belief in astrology)
- guilty
- Synonyms: reus, obnoxius, noxius
- Antonyms: īnsōns, castus, innocēns, innoxius
- participant in a thing, an accessory, accomplice
- Synonym: minister
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “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, 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