sapientia

See also: Sapientia

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sep-

Proto-Italic *sapjō

Latin sapiō

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -ns

Latin -ēns

Latin sapiēns

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin sapientia

From sapiēns + -ia.

Pronunciation

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

	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

• Galician: sabenza, → sapiencia
• → Italian: sapienza
• → Old French: sapience
  • → Middle English: sapience, sapiens, sapiense, sapyence, sapyens
    • English: sapience
  • Middle French: sapience
    • French: sapience
• Piedmontese: sapiensa
• Portuguese: sabença, → sapiência
• → Romanian: sapiență
• Sicilian: 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, 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