sensus

sensus

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch census, from Latin cēnsus. Cognate to Afrikaans sensus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛn.sʊs]
• Hyphenation: sènsus

Noun

sènsus (first-person possessive sensusku, second-person possessive sensusmu, third-person possessive sensusnya)

1. census, an official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.

Synonyms

• cacah jiwa
• banci (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Derived terms

• menyensus
• penyensus
• penyensusan

 

Further reading

• “sensus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsen.sus/, [ˈs̠ẽːs̠ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsen.sus/, [ˈsɛnsus]

Etymology 1

From sentiō (“feel, hear, see, perceive”) +‎ -tus (action noun suffix).

Noun

sēnsus m (genitive sēnsūs); fourth declension

1. faculty or power of perceiving; perception, feeling, sensation, sense
   1. (physically) perception, feeling, sensation
      1. capability of feeling, ability to perceive; sense
   2. (mentally) feeling, sentiment, emotion, affection; sense, understanding, capacity; humor, inclination, disposition, frame of mind
      1. opinion, thought, sense, view
      2. (usually in full sēnsus commūnis) common feelings of humanity; moral sense, taste, discretion, tact in intercourse with men
      3. (transferred sense, poetic) (of the thinking faculty) sense, understanding, mind, reason

         Synonyms: mēns, ratiō

         1. (particularly of discourse):
            1. (abstract) sense, idea, notion, meaning, signification

               Synonyms: sententia, nōtiō, significātiō

            2. (concrete) thought expressed in words; sentence, period

Inflection

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sēnsus	sēnsūs
Genitive	sēnsūs	sēnsuum
Dative	sēnsuī	sēnsibus
Accusative	sēnsum	sēnsūs
Ablative	sēnsū	sēnsibus
Vocative	sēnsus	sēnsūs

Derived terms

• sēnsātus
• sēnsiculus
• sēnsifer
• sēnsificus
• sēnsilis
• sēnsiloquus
• sēnsōrium
• sēnsuālis
• sēnsū lātō
• sēnsū strictō
• sēnsūtus

 

Descendants

Descendants of sensus in other languages

• → Corsican: sensu (learned)
• → Galician: senso (learned)
• → Italian: senso (learned)
• → Old French: sens, sen, san (learned) (also partly from Frankish *sinn)
  • Middle French: sens
    • French: sens
  • Picard: sins
  • → Middle English: sense, sence, sens
    • English: sense, sence
      • → Afrikaans: sense
• Old Portuguese: siso, seso
  • Galician: siso
  • Portuguese: siso
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: seso
• → Portuguese: senso (learned)
• → Romanian: sens (learned)
• Sicilian: senzu
• → Old Irish: síans, séns (learned)
  • Irish: sians
• → Old Irish: séis

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of sentiō (“feel, hear, see, perceive”).

Participle

sēnsus (feminine sēnsa, neuter sēnsum, adverb sēnsim); first/second-declension participle

1. perfect passive participle of sentiō

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	sēnsus	sēnsa	sēnsum		sēnsī	sēnsae	sēnsa
Genitive	sēnsī	sēnsae	sēnsī		sēnsōrum	sēnsārum	sēnsōrum
Dative	sēnsō		sēnsō		sēnsīs
Accusative	sēnsum	sēnsam	sēnsum		sēnsōs	sēnsās	sēnsa
Ablative	sēnsō	sēnsā	sēnsō		sēnsīs
Vocative	sēnse	sēnsa	sēnsum		sēnsī	sēnsae	sēnsa

Derived terms

• sēnsa

References

• “sensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sensus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sensus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • sound, unimpaired senses: sensus sani, integri, incorrupti
    
  • to be endowed with sense: sensibus praeditum esse
    
  • not to possess the sense of hearing: sensu audiendi carere
    
  • to come within the sphere of the senses: sensibus or sub sensus subiectum esse
    
  • to be perceptible to the senses: sensibus percipi
    
  • the world of sense, the visible world: res sensibus or oculis subiectae (De Fin. 5. 12. 36)
    
  • to make an impression on the senses: sensus movere (more strongly pellere)
    
  • a thing makes a pleasant impression on the senses: aliquid sensus suaviter afficit
    
  • a thing makes a pleasant impression on the senses: aliquid sensus iucunditate perfundit
    
  • to free one's mind from the influences of the senses: sevocare mentem a sensibus (De Nat. D. 3. 8. 21)
    
  • something offends my instincts, goes against the grain: aliquid a sensibus meis abhorret
    
  • the date: dies (fem. in this sense)
    
  • to possess not the least spark of feeling: nullam partem sensus habere
    
  • (ambiguous) to come within the sphere of the senses: sub sensum or sub oculos, sub aspectum cadere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be a man of taste: sensum, iudicium habere
    
  • (ambiguous) to express oneself in popular language: ad vulgarem sensum or ad communem opinionem orationem accommodare (Off. 2. 10. 35)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be quite insensible of all feelings to humanity: omnem humanitatis sensum amisisse
    
• sensus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016