scio

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: sci‧o

Noun

scio (uncountable, accusative scion)

1. knowledge

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈʃi.o/
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: scì‧o

Verb

scio

1. first-person singular present indicative of sciare

Anagrams

• -isco, Cois, Cosi, Soči, cosi, cosi', così, isco-, osci, scoi, soci

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *skijō, from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to distinguish, dissect”). Related to secō (“to cut off”), signum (“a sign”), Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) and English shit.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈski.oː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.o/,

Verb

sciō (present infinitive scīre, perfect active scīvī or sciī, supine scītum); fourth conjugation, no imperative

1. to be able to, to know (how to do), understand, to have practical knowledge

   Synonyms: agnōscō, cognōscō, inveniō, sentiō, cōnsciō, sapiō, nōscō, scīscō, intellegō, percipiō, discernō, tongeō, cernō, audiō

   Antonyms: ignōrō, nesciō

   Scīsne ubi habitēmus? ― Do you know where we live?

2. (euphemistic) to know carnally

Conjugation

• Used with adverb, accusative, or ablative
• The third and fourth principal parts are shared with scīscō.
• The regular present imperatives, scī and scīte, are almost never encountered, with the regular second person future imperative forms scītō and scītōte being used instead.
• Irregular forms are commonly encountered in early Latin, especially in the imperfect and future tenses.
  • syncopated perfect forms: scīsse (= scīvisse), scīstī (= scīvistī), scīrint (= scīverint)
  • archaic imperfect forms: scībam, scībās, scībat, *scībāmus, scībātis, scībant (= sciēbam etc.)
  • archaic future forms: scībō, scībis, scībit, scībimus, *scībitis, scībunt (= sciam etc.), passive scībitur
  • Contraction scīn (or scīn') for scīsne (scīs + -ne)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: shtiu, shciu, sciu
  • Istro-Romanian: știvu
  • Megleno-Romanian: știu
  • Romanian: ști
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: ischire
• Borrowings:
  • → Esperanto: scii
  • → Italian: scire (rare)

References

• “scio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I know for a fact: certo (certe) scio (Arch. 12. 32)
    
  • I know very well: probe scio, non ignoro
    
  • as far as I know: quantum scio
    
  • as far as I know: quod sciam
    
  • we know from experience: experti scimus, didicimus
    
  • to have received a liberal education: litteras scire
    
  • to know Latin: latinam linguam scire or didicisse
    
  • to know Latin: latine scire