sapientia

See also: Sapientia

Latin

Etymology

sapiēns +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa.piˈen.ti.a/, [s̠äpiˈɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa.piˈen.t͡si.a/, [säpiˈɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
• Homophone: Sapientia

Noun

sapientia f (genitive sapientiae); first declension

1. wisdom, discernment, memory

   Synonyms: prūdentia, calliditās

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

2. science, skilled practice

   Synonyms: cognitiō, ērudītiō, scientia, disciplīna

   Antonym: ignōrantia

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sapientia	sapientiae
Genitive	sapientiae	sapientiārum
Dative	sapientiae	sapientiīs
Accusative	sapientiam	sapientiās
Ablative	sapientiā	sapientiīs
Vocative	sapientia	sapientiae

Derived terms

• Sapientia

Related terms

• sapiēns
• sapienter
• sapiō
• sapor

Descendants

• English: sapience
• French: sapience
• Galician: sabenza; → sapiencia
• Italian: sapienza
• Piedmontese: sapiensa
• Portuguese: sapiência (borrowing), sabença
• Romanian: sapiență
• Sicilian: sapiènzia, sapienza
• Spanish: sapiencia
• Welsh: sabyddiaeth

References

• “sapientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sapientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sapientia 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)
• sapientia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to devote oneself to philosophy: se conferre ad philosophiam, ad philosophiae or sapientiae studium (Fam. 4. 3. 4)
    
  • to be enamoured of philosophy: philosophiae (sapientiae) studio teneri (Acad. 1. 2. 4)
    
  • to give the palm, the first place (for wisdom) to some one: primas (e.g. sapientiae) alicui deferre, tribuere, concedere