sciens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of sciō (“I can, know, understand”).

Participle

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

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative sciēns scientēs scientia
Genitive scientis scientium
Dative scientī scientibus
Accusative scientem sciēns scientēs
scientīs		 scientia
Ablative sciente
scientī1		 scientibus
Vocative sciēns scientēs scientia

1When used purely as an adjective.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → English: scient
  • Italian: sciente
  • → Middle English: scient
  • → Old French: escient
  • Old Spanish: ciente, esciente
  • → Portuguese: ciente
  • → Sicilian: scienti

References
  • “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, 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

Middle English

Noun

sciens

  1. Alternative form of science
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