sensate

English

Etymology

From Middle English sensat, from Late Latin sensatus (“able to sense”), from sensus (“sense”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.seɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

sensate (comparative more sensate, superlative most sensate)

1. Perceived by one or more of the senses.
2. Having the ability to sense things physically.
   • 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary):

     Mendicant was able to postpone its inevitable annihilation for [106:S] with its attempt to flee. But the last of its core vessels hangs before me now; crippled and defeated but still sensate.

3. Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.
   • 1689, Richard Baxter, A treatise of knowledge and love compared in two parts:

     To say that Volitions which are acts of the Intellectual Soul must be sensate, and so make a Species on the phantasie, as sensate things do

Verb

sensate (third-person singular simple present sensates, present participle sensating, simple past and past participle sensated)

1. (transitive) To feel or apprehend by means of the senses; to perceive.

   to sensate light, or an odour

   • R. Hooke

     As those of the one are sensated by the ear, so those of the other are by the eye.

Anagrams

• Santees, entases, sateens, senates, tenases

Italian

Adjective

sensate

1. feminine plural of sensato

Anagrams

• assente

Latin

Etymology 1

From sēnsātus (“sensible, intelligent”) +‎ -ē.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /senˈsaː.teː/, [s̠ẽːˈs̠äːt̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /senˈsa.te/, [senˈsäːt̪e]

Adverb

sensātē (not comparable)

1. intelligently, sensibly

Etymology 2

Adjective

sēnsāte

1. vocative masculine singular of sēnsātus

References

• sensate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

sensate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of sensar combined with te