sapiens

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English

Etymology

From translingual Homo sapiens, from Latin sapiēns, present active participle of sapiō (“discern, be capable of discerning”).

Noun

sapiens (plural sapiens or sapientes)

  1. A human being (Homo sapiens).
    • 2000, William H. Libaw, How we got to be human: subjective minds with objective bodies, page 277:
      The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food.
    • 2005, Sherwood L. Washburn, Classification and Human Evolution, page 335:
      Even if we assume that the rate of change was slow and the evolving population large, we must still assume that sapiens was rather isolated.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of sapiō (“I discern”).

Pronunciation

Participle

sapiēns (genitive sapientis, comparative sapientior, superlative sapientissimus, adverb sapienter); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. discerning, wise, judicious
    Synonyms: callidus, prūdēns, sollers
    Antonyms: īnsipiēns, stupidus, fatuus, stultus, āmēns, dēmēns
  2. discreet
  3. (masculine substantive) a wise man, sage, philosopher
    • (Can we date this quote?) Anonymous
      Sapiens nihil affirmat quod non probat ― a wise man asserts nothing which he does not (ap)prove

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative sapiēns sapientēs sapientia
Genitive sapientis sapientium
Dative sapientī sapientibus
Accusative sapientem sapiēns sapientēs
sapientīs 		sapientia
Ablative sapiente
sapientī1 		sapientibus
Vocative sapiēns sapientēs sapientia

1When used purely as an adjective.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “sapiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sapiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sapiens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • sapiens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a wise man is in no way affected by this: hoc nihil ad sapientem pertinet
    • it is incompatible with the nature of a wise man; the wise are superior to such things: hoc in sapientem non cadit
    • what do we understand by 'a wise man': quem intellegimus sapientem?

Middle English

Noun

sapiens

  1. Alternative form of sapience
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