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Latin
Etymology
From sciō (“know”) + -scō.
Pronunciation
Verb
scīscō (present infinitive scīscere, perfect active scīvī, supine scītum); third conjugation
- (transitive) to seek to know; ask, search, inquire, question
- Synonyms: scīscitor, percontor, quaerō, investīgō, indāgō, requīrō, scrūtor, interrogō
- (of the people, after inquiry or examination, transitive) to accept, approve, assent to, vote for; appoint, enact, decree, ordain
- Synonyms: sanciō, probō, adnuō, cōnscīscō, approbō, assentiō
- (transitive) to learn, ascertain, determine, know
- Synonyms: agnōscō, cognōscō, inveniō, comperiō, sentiō, cōnsciō, sapiō, sciō, nōscō, intellegō, percipiō, discernō, tongeō, cernō, audiō
- Antonyms: ignōrō, nesciō
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References
- “scisco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scisco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scisco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to vote for a law: legem sciscere (Planc. 14. 35)