sciens - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Present active participle of sciō (“to be able to; to know; to understand”).
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈski.ẽːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈʃiː.ens]
sciēns (genitive scientis, comparative scientior, superlative scientissimus, adverb scienter); third-declension one-termination participle
- knowing, understanding
- conscious, aware
- knowledgeable, skilled
- (figuratively, of a woman) having sexual relations with a man.
- (adjective equivalent to an adverb) knowingly, purposely, consciously
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.
- → English: scient
- Italian: sciente
- → Middle English: scient
- → Old French: escient
- French: escient
- Old Spanish: ciente, esciente
- → Portuguese: ciente
- → Sicilian: scienti
- “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[1], 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
- a good Latin scholar: bene latine doctus or sciens
sciens
- alternative form of science