prudentia

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *pér

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *pró

Proto-Indo-European *pro-

Proto-Italic *pro-

Latin prō-

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *widēō

Latin videō

Latin prōvideō

Latin prōvidēns

Latin prūdēns

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin prūdentia

From prūdēns + -ia. Compare prōvidentia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pruːˈdɛn.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pruˈdɛn.t͡si.a]

Noun

prūdentia f (genitive prūdentiae); first declension

1. acquaintance, knowledge, skilfulness
2. sagacity, prudence, discretion, discreetness

   Synonyms: sapientia, calliditās

   Antonyms: stultitia, ineptitūdō, īnsapientia, imprūdentia, sōcordia, stupiditās, inertia

3. foresight
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, De brevitate vitae 9:

     Potestne quicquam stultius esse quam quorundam sensus, hominum eorum dico qui prudentiam iactant?

     Can anything be sillier than the point of view of certain people—I mean those who boast of their foresight?

4. wisdom
   • Deuteronomy 32:28 Latin Vulgate

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	prūdentia	prūdentiae
genitive	prūdentiae	prūdentiārum
dative	prūdentiae	prūdentiīs
accusative	prūdentiam	prūdentiās
ablative	prūdentiā	prūdentiīs
vocative	prūdentia	prūdentiae

Descendants

• Catalan: prudència
• French: prudence
• Friulian: prudence
• Galician: prudencia
• Italian: prudenza
• Occitan: prudéncia
• Piedmontese: prudensa
• Portuguese: prudência
• Romanian: prudență
• Sicilian: prudenza
• Spanish: prudencia

Adjective

prūdentia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of prūdēns

References

• “prudentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prudentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “prudentia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) statesmanship; political wisdom: prudentia (civilis) (De Or. 1. 19. 85)
    
• prudentia in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016