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    Present active participle of sciō (to be able to; to know; to understand).

    sciēns (genitive scientis, comparative scientior, superlative scientissimus, adverb scienter); third-declension one-termination participle

    1. knowing, understanding
    2. conscious, aware
      Synonyms: cōnsciēns, cognōscēns, cōnscius, scius
      Antonyms: ignārus, nescius, ignōrāns, īnscius, nesciēns, expers
    3. knowledgeable, skilled
    4. (figuratively, of a woman) having sexual relations with a man.
    5. (adjective equivalent to an adverb) knowingly, purposely, consciously

    Third-declension participle.

    1When used purely as an adjective.

    • 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

    sciens

    1. alternative form of science