sapience
English
noun
Definitions
- The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French sapience derived from Latin sapientia (science, wisdom) root from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁p- (research, try).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*seh₁p-
Gloss
research, try
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Cognates and derived terms
- savantism English
- homō Latin
- insipientia Latin
- sapere Latin
- sapidus Latin
- sapientia Latin
- sapiēns Latin
- sapiō Latin
- sapiō, sapere, sapio Latin
- sapor Latin
- sapĕre, sapio Latin
- sapōrem, sapor Latin
- sibus Latin
- īnsipidus Latin
- sapienza Italian
- idiot savant French
- sapiencia Spanish, Castilian
- *seh₁p- Proto-Indo-European
- *sep-, *seh₁p- Proto-Indo-European
- sapiência Portuguese
- insipient Old French
- sapience Old French
- sapiență Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- sapience Middle French
- sapiencia Old Occitan