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)

  1. 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

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

  1. discerning, wise, judicious
  2. discreet
  3. (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."

Inflection

Third declension.

Number Singular Plural
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.

Descendants

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?
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