NODE / 0170attestedLatin
nescīre
not to know; to be unfamiliar with
- DATE
- Latin antiquity
- SENSE
- not know
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:9:nescire:attested:sense:not-know
A negative formation containing the verb scīre “to know.”
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
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GO DEEPERnegative compoundestablished
Latin · Latin antiquity · know discernscīre
to know
- SOUND
- Latin nescīre contains the negative element ne- plus scīre “to know.”
- MEANING
- Knowing is negated: “know” becomes “not know, be unfamiliar with.”
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The internal Latin negative relationship is secure even though the deeper prehistory of scīre is disputed.
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
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03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
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- UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
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- REVIEWED EDGES
- 7
- DEEPEST PATH
- 4
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 2
HISTORICAL STEP 012 EDGES
STEP 01derivationestablished
- SOUND
- The adjective nescius is built within the nescīre “not know” family.
- MEANING
- Not knowing is lexicalized as ignorant.
STEP 01inflectional derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Latin nesciens is the present participle of nescīre.
- MEANING
- The activity or state of not knowing is expressed as “not knowing.”
HISTORICAL STEP 022 EDGES
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Latin nescius passes through Romance without preserving the full Latin ending.
- MEANING
- Ignorance becomes foolishness or simplicity in the French adjective.
STEP 02derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Late Latin nescientia is built on the present-participial stem nescient- of nesciens.
- MEANING
- A not-knowing person or state supplies the abstract noun for ignorance.
HISTORICAL STEP 032 EDGES
STEP 03borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Anglo-French nice enters Middle English with spelling preserved and pronunciation adapted to English.
- MEANING
- Silly or simple expands into foolish, wanton, coy, fastidious, and precise senses.
STEP 03borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Late Latin nescientia is adapted into English nescience with loss of the Latin ending and English stress and consonant development.
- MEANING
- The abstract meaning remains lack of knowledge or awareness.
HISTORICAL STEP 041 EDGE
STEP 04semantic continuationestablished
- SOUND
- The inherited spelling and /aɪ/ pronunciation remain stable as the modern sense profile settles.
- MEANING
- Foolish, wanton, and fastidious senses move through precise and discriminating toward pleasant, agreeable, and kind.
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04RECORDED EVIDENCE
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05EDITORIAL REUSE
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