Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAny of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste. · Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness. · Sound practical or moral judgment. · The meaning, reason, or value of something.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsuslbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense From Middle English sense, from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, perception, direction”); partly from Latin sēnsus (“sensation, feeling, meaning”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive”); partly of Germanic origin (whence also Occitan sen, Italian senno), from Vulgar Latin *sennus (“sense, reason, way”), from Frankish *sinn ("reason, judgement, mental faculty, way, direction"; whence also Dutch zin, German Sinn, Swedish sinne, Norwegian sinn). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionsenseenm
- Derivation mentionsens, sen, sanfro · sense, perception, direction
- Derivation mentionsēnsusla · sensation, feeling, meaning
- Cognate mentionsenoc
- Cognate mentionsennoit
- Cognate mentionzinnl
- Cognate mentionSinnde
- Cognate mentionsinnesv
- Cognate mentionsinnno
- Derivation mention*sent-ine-pro · to feel
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