conscientia

Latin

Etymology

From cōnsciēns (“conscious”) +‎ -ia, a calque of Ancient Greek συνείδησις (suneídēsis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.skiˈen.ti.a/, [kõːs̠kiˈɛn̪t̪iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.ʃiˈen.t͡si.a/, [kon̠ʲʃiˈɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

cōnscientia f (genitive cōnscientiae); first declension

1. knowledge shared with others, being in the know or privy to, joint knowledge; complicity
2. knowledge within oneself, consciousness, feeling
3. knowledge within oneself of right or wrong; conscience; remorse

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnscientia	cōnscientiae
Genitive	cōnscientiae	cōnscientiārum
Dative	cōnscientiae	cōnscientiīs
Accusative	cōnscientiam	cōnscientiās
Ablative	cōnscientiā	cōnscientiīs
Vocative	cōnscientia	cōnscientiae

Derived terms

• cōnscientiōsus

Related terms

• cōnsciō
• sciō

Descendants

• → Catalan: consciència
• → Friulian: cussience
• → Italian: coscienza
• → Ladin: cuscienza, coscïenza, cosciënza
• → Ligurian: conscensa, coscensa
• → Old French: conscience
  • French: conscience
  • → Middle English: conscience, consience, conciens
    • English: conscience
    • → Irish: coinsias
    • Yola: coshes, coshe, cosh
• → Piedmontese: cossiensa, consiensa
• → Portuguese: consciência
• → Romanian: conștiință
• → Spanish: consciencia, conciencia
• → Venetian: cosienza
• → Old High German: giwizzanī (calque)
  • German: Gewissen
    • → Dutch: geweten (calque)
• → Welsh: cydwybod (calque)

References

• “conscĭentĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conscientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conscientia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• conscĭentĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, pages 398–399
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a good conscience: conscientia recta, recte facti (factorum), virtutis, bene actae vitae, rectae voluntatis
    
  • a guilty conscience: conscientia mala or peccatorum, culpae, sceleris, delicti
    
  • to be conscience-stricken: conscientia morderi (Tusc. 4. 20. 45)
    
  • his guilty conscience gives him no rest: conscientiae maleficiorum stimulant aliquem
    
  • to be tormented by remorse: conscientia mala angi, excruciari
    
  • to congratulate oneself on one's clear conscience: conscientia recte factorum erigi
    
• conscientia in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 27.02.03) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “conscientia” on page 411/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)