The noun scientia is formed from the participial stem scient- / sciens.
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scientia
knowledge, awareness, understanding, branch of knowledge
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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedLatin · Latin antiquity · knowing participlesciens
knowing
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A knowing person/state supplies an abstract noun for knowledge.
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established — no additional confidence note is attached.
reviewed
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Science — Word HistoryEtymology
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Derives scientia from scient-, sciens.
Omniscient — Definition, Word History, and First Known UseDid You Know?: scientia and the scīre family
contextAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Connects the all-knowledge formation to the reviewed science family.
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