sapience

English

Etymology

Old French sapience, from Latin sapientia.

Noun

sapience (usually uncountable; plural sapiences)

1. The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.
   • 2009, Robert Brandom, Reason in Philosophy: Animating Ideas

     I then marked out three ways in which we can instead describe and demarcate ourselves in terms of the sapience that distinguishes us from the beasts of forest and field.

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French

Etymology

Old French sapience, from Latin sapientia.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sapjɑ̃s/

Noun

sapience f. (plural sapiences)

1. wisdom, sapience

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Middle French

Etymology

Latin sapientia

Noun

sapience f. (plural sapiences)

1. wisdom, sapience
   • 1534, François Rabelais, Gargantua:

     car leur sçavoir n'estoit que besterie et leur sapience n'estoit que moufles

     for their knowledge was just nonsense and their wisdom was just waffle.

Descendants

• French: sapience

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Old French

Etymology

Latin sapientia

Noun

sapience f. (oblique plural sapiences, nominative singular sapience, nominative plural sapiences)

1. wisdom, sapience

Descendants

• English: sapience
• French: sapience