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START / NODE 451Present-Day Englishcirca 1600–today
conscious
Aware, awake, or deliberate; borrowed directly from Latin conscius in the knowing-family.
“Conscious began with knowing, including knowing along with another person. The familiar private inner state is a later center of a word whose Latin structure was relational.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Present-Day Englishconscious
aware, awake, subjectively felt, or deliberate; later also a psychoanalytic noun
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Latin · Latin antiquitycōnsciusknowing or aware; also knowing something along with another person
- SOUND CHANGE
- English conscious adapts Latin cōnscius with English stress, vowel reduction, and the learned -ous ending.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- Latin knowing and awareness develop across English senses of perception, wakefulness, subjective feeling, and deliberate action.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- CHRONOLOGY
- Merriam-Webster reports the adjective circa 1600.
2 CITATIONSConscious — Definition, Word History, and First Known UseWord History and First Known Use American Heritage Dictionary: consciousHeadword etymology and definitions AUDIT CANONICAL EDGE 415 ↗
Documents direct Latin ancestry and the circa-1600 English horizon.
ORIGINAL ↗Independently documents Latin cōnscius and the modern awareness range.
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