sens
Old French
noun
Definitions
- reason; ability to reason or think
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sensus (feeling, sense, sensation, meaning), *sennus derived from Frankish *sinn (sense, judgement, mental faculty, way, direction, mind, reason) derived from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (feel, go, head for, true, being, head).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*sent-
Gloss
feel, go, head for, true, being, head
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
頭
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- consensual English
- dissent English
- sensifacient English
- sensual English
- *sennus Latin
- cōnsentīre Latin
- cōnsēnsus Latin
- dissēnsus Latin
- sensatio Latin
- sensificus Latin
- sensualis Latin
- sensus Latin
- sentio Latin
- sentio, sentiō, sentīre Latin
- sentīre Latin
- sēnsus Latin
- senno Italian
- sens French
- sensitiva Spanish, Castilian
- seso Spanish, Castilian
- *sent- Proto-Indo-European
- *sent-n- Proto-Indo-European
- *sentnos Proto-Indo-European
- sans Norwegian Bokmål
- *gasinþiją Proto-Germanic
- *sinþaz Proto-Germanic
- *sunjō Proto-Germanic
- sans Norwegian Nynorsk
- asener Old French
- assent Old French
- boin sens Old French
- forsener Old French
- sens, san, sen Old French
- senco Esperanto
- هناییدن Persian
- sens Middle French
- *sinn gmw-pro
- siso Old Portuguese
- *sentus Proto-Celtic
- *sinn Frankish
- sintėti Lithuanian
- sen Old Occitan
- sensu Corsican