sciens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of sciō (“I can, know, understand”).

Participle

sciēns (genitive scientis, comparative scientior, superlative scientissimus, adverb scienter); third-declension one-termination participle

1. knowing, understanding
2. conscious, aware
3. knowledgeable, skilled
4. (figuratively, of a woman) having sexual relations with a man.

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	sciēns			scientēs	scientia
Genitive	scientis			scientium
Dative	scientī			scientibus
Accusative	scientem	sciēns		scientēs scientīs	scientia
Ablative	sciente scientī1			scientibus
Vocative	sciēns			scientēs	scientia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Derived terms

• īnsciēns
• omnisciēns
• scientia

Descendants

• Old French: escient
• Old Spanish: ciente, esciente
• Portuguese: ciente

References

• “sciens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sciens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sciens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a good Latin scholar: bene latine doctus or sciens
    
  • (ambiguous) to acquire knowledge of a subject: scientia comprehendere aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to enrich a person's knowledge: scientia augere aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
    
  • (ambiguous) geographical knowledge: regionum terrestrium aut maritimarum scientia
    

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Middle English

Noun

sciens

1. Alternative form of science