scientia

Interlingua

Noun

scientia (plural scientias)

science, knowledge

Related terms

scientific
scientista

Latin

Etymology

From sciēns, scientem (“knowing, aware; having expertise”) +‎ -ia (“abstract noun suffix”). Attested from Varro onwards (early 1st century BCE).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /skiˈen.ti.a/, [s̠kiˈɛn̪t̪iä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ʃiˈen.t͡si.a/, [ʃiˈɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
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Noun

scientia f (genitive scientiae); first declension

(abstract):
1. knowledge, awareness, cognizance (the state of knowing a fact or situation)
  Synonyms: cognitiō, sapientia, nōtitia
  Antonym: ignōrantia
2. learning, learnedness, erudition (the state of having an extensive knowledge)
  Synonyms: ēruditiō, sapientia
3. expert understanding of a skill, art, science etc. (also as opposed to practice)
  Synonyms: intellēctus, ars
  Antonyms: ūsus, experientia, exercitātiō
(concrete):
1. (philosophy) that which is known (as opposed to a mere belief, translating Ancient Greek ἐπιστήμη (epistḗmē))
  Antonyms: opīniō, suspiciō, coniectūra
  - 1597, Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacrae:
    Nam et ipsa scientia potestās est.
    After all, knowledge itself is power.
  1. (Medieval Latin, logic) knowledge (as distinguished according to the direction: from cause to effect or vice versa, corr. to Ancient Greek διότι (dióti) vs. ὅτι (hóti))
    scientia propter quid ― a knowledge derived from cause to effect
    scientia quia ― a knowledge derived from effect to cause
    - William of Ockham, Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard I.89:
      plūs differunt scientia adquīsīta per dēmōnstrātiōnem et scientia adquīsīta per experientiam, quam scientia quia et scientia propter quid
      there's a greater difference between knowledge acquired through logical proof and knowledge acquired through practical experience, than between knowledge from effect and knowledge from cause
2. the knowledge, lore, scholarship of a particular discipline
  Synonyms: doctrīna, ars
  scientia speculātīva (Medieval Latin) ― theoretical knowledge
3. the know-how, skill, expertise (applied knowledge)
  Synonyms: perītia, ars
  scientia practica (Medieval Latin) ― practical knowledge
4. (Medieval Latin) a science (an organized branch of methodically-acquired knowledge with a unified subject-matter)
  Synonym: disciplīna
  Hyponyms: historia nātūrālis, philosophia nātūrālis, physica (all "natural science")

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scientia	scientiae
Genitive	scientiae	scientiārum
Dative	scientiae	scientiīs
Accusative	scientiam	scientiās
Ablative	scientiā	scientiīs
Vocative	scientia	scientiae

Descendants

Note: all descendants have been influenced by the Latin (and/or French) in meaning, and several also in form.

→ Albanian: shkencë
Aromanian: shtiintsã
→ Asturian: ciencia
→ Basque: zientzia
→ Catalan: ciència
→ Esperanto: scienco
Friulian: sience
Galician: chencha, → ciencia
→ Ido: cienco
Italian: scienza
- → Maltese: xjenza
→ Ladino: sensia
→ Occitan: sciéncia
→ Old French: science
- → Middle English: science
  - English: science
    - → Japanese: サイエンス
    - → Malay: sains
      - → Indonesian: sains
    - → Swahili: sayansi
- Middle French: science
  - French: science
    - → Khmer: ស្យង់ (syɑng)
- Norman: scienche
→ Portuguese: ciência
Romanian: știință
→ Sardinian: iscièntzia
→ Sicilian: sciènzia
→ Spanish: ciencia, esciencia
Venetian: sienza, siensa

Participle

scientia

nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of sciēns

References

“scientia” on page 1877 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “scientia”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, OCLC 1369101

scientia

Interlingua

Noun

Related terms

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