sentio

From Proto-Italic *sentjō, from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”). Cognate with Samogitian sintietė (“to think”), Old High German sinnan (“to go; desire”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsen.ti.oː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsen.t͡si.o/,

sentiō (present infinitive sentīre, perfect active sēnsī, supine sēnsum); fourth conjugation

1. to feel, to sense, to perceive (with the senses)

   Synonyms: sapiō, percipiō, cōnspicor

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.553:

     Hanc quoque Phoebus amat positāque in stīpite dextrā
     sentit adhūc trepidāre novō sub cortice pectus.

     But yet Phoebus loves her in this form and pressing his right hand
     he feels still the trembling heart under the bark.

2. to perceive, be aware of, to be sensible of, to notice mentally, to understand (by using one's senses)

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

   Antonyms: ignōrō, nesciō

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 4.14:

     Prius ad hostium castra pervēnit quam quid agerētur Germānī sentīre possent.

     He arrived at the camp of the enemy before the Germans could perceive what was going on.

3. to have an opinion, to think, to feel

   Synonyms: arbitror, opīnor, cōgitō, exīstimō, reor, putō, reputō, iūdicō, cēnseō

   • c. 100 CE – 110 CE, Tacitus, Histories 1.1:

     ubi sentīre quae velīs et quae sentiās dīcere licet.

     where to feel what you wish, and what you feel to say, is permitted.

4. to feel (an emotion)
5. to agree (typically followed by cum)
6. (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) (figuratively) to meet
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.13.3:

     Quī custōdit ōs suum custōdit animam suam: quī autem incōnsīderātus est ad loquendum sentiet mala.

     He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his soul: but he that hath no guard on his speech shall meet with evils. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

• “sentio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sentio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sentio 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)
• sentio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hold the same views: idem sentire (opp. dissentire ab aliquo)
    
  • give me your opinion: dic quid sentias
    
  • to agree with a person: consentire, idem sentire cum aliquo
    
  • to think one thing, say another; to conceal one's opinions: aliter sentire ac loqui (aliud sentire, aliud loqui)
    
  • to have the good of the state at heart: bene, optime sentire de re publica
    
  • to have the good of the state at heart: omnia de re publica praeclara atque egregia sentire
    
  • to have the same political opinions: idem de re publica sentire
    
  • to foster revolutionary projects: contra rem publicam sentire
    
  • I will give you my true opinion: dicam quod sentio
    
  • (ambiguous) to come within the sphere of the senses: sub sensum or sub oculos, sub aspectum cadere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be a man of taste: sensum, iudicium habere
    
  • (ambiguous) to express oneself in popular language: ad vulgarem sensum or ad communem opinionem orationem accommodare (Off. 2. 10. 35)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be quite insensible of all feelings to humanity: omnem humanitatis sensum amisisse
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 554