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See also: Sapiens
Englisch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From translingual Homo sapiens, from Latin sapiēns, present active participle of sapiō (“discern, be capable of discerning”).
Nomen
[edit]sapiens (plural sapiens or sapientes)
- A human being (Homo sapiens).
- 2000, William H. Libaw, How we got to be human: subjective minds with objective bodies, page 277:
- The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food.
- 2005, Sherwood L. Washburn, Classification and Human Evolution, page 335:
- Even if we assume that the rate of change was slow and the evolving population large, we must still assume that sapiens was rather isolated.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Present active participle of sapiō (“I discern”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsa.pi.ens/, [ˈs̠äpiẽːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.pi.ens/, [ˈsäːpiens]
Participle
[edit]sapiēns (genitive sapientis, comparative sapientior, superlative sapientissimus, adverb sapienter); third-declension one-termination participle
- discerning, wise, judicious
- discrete
- (masculine substantive) a wise man, sage, philosopher
- (Can we date this quote?) Anonymous
- Sapiens nihil affirmat quod non probat ― a wise man asserts nothing which he does not (ap)prove
- (Can we date this quote?) Anonymous
Declension
[edit]Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | sapiēns | sapientēs | sapientia | ||
Genitive | sapientis | sapientium | |||
Dative | sapientī | sapientibus | |||
Accusative | sapientem | sapiēns | sapientēs sapientīs |
sapientia | |
Ablative | sapiente sapientī1 |
sapientibus | |||
Vocative | sapiēns | sapientēs | sapientia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “sapiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sapiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sapiens 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)
- sapiens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a wise man is in no way affected by this: hoc nihil ad sapientem pertinet
- it is incompatible with the nature of a wise man; the wise are superior to such things: hoc in sapientem non cadit
- what do we understand by 'a wise man': quem intellegimus sapientem?
- a wise man is in no way affected by this: hoc nihil ad sapientem pertinet
Middle English
[edit]Nomen
[edit]sapiens
- Alternative form of sapience
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