sciens

== Latin == === Etymology === Present active participle of sciō (“to be able to; to know; to understand”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈski.ẽːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈʃiː.ens] === Participle === sciēns (genitive scientis, comparative scientior, superlative scientissimus, adverb scienter); third-declension one-termination participle knowing, understanding conscious, aware Synonyms: cōnsciēns, cognōscēns, cōnscius, scius Antonyms: ignārus, nescius, ignōrāns, īnscius, nesciēns, expers knowledgeable, skilled (figuratively, of a woman) having sexual relations with a man. (adjective equivalent to an adverb) knowingly, purposely, consciously ==== Declension ==== Third-declension participle. 1When used purely as an adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== īnsciēns omnisciēns scientia ==== Descendants ==== → English: scient Italian: sciente → Middle English: scient → Old French: escientFrench: 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co. == Middle English == === Noun === sciens alternative form of science