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Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of sciō (“I can, know, understand”).
Participle
sciēns (genitive scientis, comparative scientior, superlative scientissimus, adverb scienter); third-declension one-termination participle
- knowing, understanding
- conscious, aware
- Synonyms: cōnsciēns, cognōscēns, cōnscius, scius
- Antonyms: ignārus, nescius, ignōrāns, īnscius, nesciēns, expers
- knowledgeable, skilled
- (figuratively, of a woman) having sexual relations with a man.
- (adjective equivalent to an adverb) knowingly, purposely, consciously
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “sciens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sciens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sciens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a good Latin scholar: bene latine doctus or sciens
- (ambiguous) to acquire knowledge of a subject: scientia comprehendere aliquid
- (ambiguous) to enrich a person's knowledge: scientia augere aliquem
- (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
- (ambiguous) geographical knowledge: regionum terrestrium aut maritimarum scientia
Middle English
Noun
sciens
- Alternative form of science