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Esperanto
Verb
scius
- conditional of scii
Latin
Etymology
From sciō, or as a back-formation from nescius (“ignorant”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
scius (feminine scia, neuter scium); first/second-declension adjective
- knowing, cognizant
- Synonyms: cōnsciēns, cognōscēns, cōnscius, sciēns
- Antonyms: ignārus, ignōrāns, īnscius, nesciēns, nescius, expers
- knowledgeable
- Synonyms: gnārus, doctus, perītus, sapiēns
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “scius” on page 1882 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- “scius” in Forcellini E., Lexicon Totius Latinitatis
Further reading
- “scius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- scius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “scius”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia