scientia

Interlingua

Noun

scientia (plural scientias)

1. science, knowledge

Related terms

• scientific
• scientista

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Latin

Etymology

From sciēns, present participle of sciō (“to know, understand”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /skiˈen.ti.a/, [s̠kiˈɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ʃiˈen.t͡si.a/, [ʃiˈɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

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Noun

scientia f (genitive scientiae); first declension

1. knowledge
   • 1597, Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacrae:

     Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.

     And thus knowledge itself is power.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scientia	scientiae
Genitive	scientiae	scientiārum
Dative	scientiae	scientiīs
Accusative	scientiam	scientiās
Ablative	scientiā	scientiīs
Vocative	scientia	scientiae

Descendants

• Albanian: shkencë
• Aromanian: shtiintsã
• Asturian: ciencia
• Basque: zientzia
• Catalan: ciència
• English: science
• Esperanto: scienco

• French: science
• Friulian: sience
• Galician: chencha, ciencia
• Ido: cienco
• Italian: scienza
• Ladino: sensia
• Maltese: xjenza

• Norman: scienche
• Occitan: sciéncia
• Portuguese: ciência
• Romanian: știință
• Sardinian: iscièntzia
• Spanish: ciencia, esciencia
• Venetian: sienza, siensa

Participle

(deprecated template usage) scientia

1. nominative neuter plural of sciēns
2. accusative neuter plural of sciēns
3. vocative neuter plural of sciēns

References

• “scientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scientia 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)
• scientia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to possess literary knowledge: litterarum scientiam (only in sing.) habere
    
  • to acquire knowledge of a subject: scientiam alicuius rei consequi
    
  • (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