sententia
Latin
Etymology
Dissimilated form of earlier *sentientia, from sentiens (“feeling, perceiving”) + -ia.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /senˈten.ti.a/, [s̠ɛn̪ˈt̪ɛn̪t̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /senˈten.t͡si.a/, [sen̪ˈt̪ɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Noun
sententia f (genitive sententiae); first declension
- opinion, thought, feeling
- Synonyms: auctōritās, cōgitātiō, existimātiō, opīniō
- purpose, determination, will, decision
- vote, sentence, judgement
- Synonym: suffrāgium
- (of words or discourse) sense, meaning, signification, idea, notion
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sententia | sententiae |
Genitive | sententiae | sententiārum |
Dative | sententiae | sententiīs |
Accusative | sententiam | sententiās |
Ablative | sententiā | sententiīs |
Vocative | sententia | sententiae |
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: sentence
- French: sentence
- Hungarian: szentencia
- Italian: sentenza
- Russian: сенте́нция (sentɛ́ncija)
- Portuguese: sentença
- Spanish: sentencia
References
- “sententia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sententia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sententia 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)
- sententia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- as one would wish; to one's mind: ex sententia
- to abide by, persist in one's opinion: in sententia manere, permanere, perseverare, perstare
- to give up one's opinion: a sententia sua discedere
- to give up one's opinion: de sententia sua decedere
- to give up one's opinion: (de) sententia desistere
- to be forced to change one's mind: de sententia deici, depelli, deterreri
- to make a man change his opinion: de sententia aliquem deducere, movere
- to win a man over to one's own way of thinking: aliquem ad suam sententiam perducere or in suam sententiam adducere
- to adopt some one's opinion: ad alicuius sententiam accedere, sententiam alicuius sequi
- to freely express one's opinions: sententiam suam aperire
- not to betray one's feelings by one's looks: sententiam fronte celare, tegere
- I think that..: in hac sum sententia, ut...putem
- to discuss a subject more fully on the same lines: plura in eam sententiam disputare
- according to my opinion: mea (quidem) sententia
- many men, many minds: quot homines, tot sententiae
- according to my strong conviction: ex animi mei sententia (vid. sect. XI. 2)
- to alter one's views, intentions: consilium, sententiam mutare
- I am firmly resolved: stat mihi sententia (Liv. 21. 30.)
- those views are out of date: illae sententiae evanuerunt
- those ideas have long ago been given up: illae sententiae iam pridem explosae et eiectae sunt (Fin. 5. 8. 23)
- to explain one's sentiments: sententias (verbis) explicare, aperire
- profound sentiments: sententiae reconditae ex exquisitae (Brut. 97. 274)
- richness of ideas: crebritas or copia (opp. inopia) sententiarum or simply copia
- rich in ideas: sententiis abundans or creber (opp. sententiis inanis)
- the connection: sententiae inter se nexae
- the connection: contextus orationis (not nexus, conexus sententiarum)
- the connection of thought: ratio sententiarum
- the connection of thought: ratio, qua sententiae inter se excipiunt.
- to answer to this effect: respondere in hanc sententiam
- the sentence, proposition: enuntiatio, enuntiatum, sententia
- what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quae notio or sententia subiecta est huic voci?
- to hold by the letter (of the law): verba ac litteras or scriptum (legis) sequi (opp. sententia the spirit)
- the terms, contents of the letter are as follows: litterae in hanc sententiam or his verbis scriptae sunt
- to love deeply: aliquem ex animo or ex animi sententia amare (Q. Fr. 1. 1. 5)
- I swear on my conscience: ex animi mei sententia iuro
- to vote (in the popular assembly): suffragium ferre (vid. sect. VI. 4, note Not sententiam...)
- the spirit of the law: sententia or voluntas legis
- to ask the opinion of..: sententiam rogare, interrogare
- to give an opinion (also used of a judge, cf. sect. VI. 4): sententiam dicere
- the senate inclines to the opinion, decides for..: senatus sententia inclīnat ad... (De Sen. 6. 16)
- the majority were of the opinion..: sententia vincit (Liv. 2. 4. 3)
- to vote for some one's motion: discedere (pedibus), ire in alicuius sententiam (Liv. 23. 10)
- the finding of the jury: sententiae iudicum
- to give sentence (of the judge, cf. sect. VI. 4, note Not...): sententiam ferre, dicere (Off. 3. 16. 66)
- the tenor of his speech was this..: hanc in sententiam dixit
- as one would wish; to one's mind: ex sententia