sapiens
See also: Sapiens
English
Etymology
From Translingual (New Latin) Homo sapiens, from Latin sapiēns, present active participle of sapiō (“discern, be capable of discerning”).
Noun
sapiens (plural sapiens)
- 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.
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Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of sapiō (“discern, be capable of discerning”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.pi.ens/, [ˈsa.pi.ẽːs]
Participle
sapiēns m or f or n (genitive sapientis); third declension
- discerning, wise, judicious
- discreet
- (masculine substantive) a wise man, sage, philosopher
- Anonymous (Can we date this quote?)
- Sapiens nihil affirmat quod non probat
- "a wise man asserts nothing which he does not (ap)prove."
- Sapiens nihil affirmat quod non probat
- Anonymous (Can we date this quote?)
Inflection
Third declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | sapiēns | sapiēns | sapientēs | sapientia | |
Genitive | sapientis | sapientis | sapientium | sapientium | |
Dative | sapientī | sapientī | sapientibus | sapientibus | |
Accusative | sapientem | sapiēns | sapientēs, sapientīs | sapientia | |
Ablative | sapiente, sapientī1 | sapiente, sapientī1 | sapientibus | sapientibus | |
Vocative | sapiēns | sapiēns | sapientēs | sapientia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
- comparative: sapientior, superlative: sapientissimus
Descendants
- English: sapient, Homo sapiens
- Italian: sapiente
- Old French: savant, sachant, sapient
- Portuguese: sapiente
- Romanian: sapient
- Spanish: sapiente (borrowing)
- Translingual: Homo sapiens
References
- 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, 1883–1887)
- sapiens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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
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