PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. English borrowed the learned noun through Late Latin nescientia, itself built through nesciens and nescīre from the Latin negative plus scīre.
/ˈnɛʃəns/ · noun
Lack of knowledge or awareness, borrowed from the Latin negative-knowing family also underlying science and the older history of nice.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Traces the complete negative-knowing lineage and the 1612 English record.
Did You Know?; Word History: Etymology; First Known UseShows science as a separate English descendant of the same Latin knowing verb.
Science etymology and Latin scīreThe graph joins nescience and science at Latin scīre without making either English word the parent of the other.