sapiens

See also: Sapiens

English

From translingual Homo sapiens, from Latin sapiēns, present active participle of sapiō (“discern, be capable of discerning”).

sapiens (plural sapiens or sapientes)

A human being (Homo sapiens).
- 2000, William H. Libaw, How we got to be human: subjective minds with objective bodies, page 277:
  The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food.
- 2005, Sherwood L. Washburn, Classification and Human Evolution, page 335:
  Even if we assume that the rate of change was slow and the evolving population large, we must still assume that sapiens was rather isolated.

Present active participle of sapiō (“I discern”).

sapiēns (genitive sapientis, comparative sapientior, superlative sapientissimus, adverb sapienter); third-declension one-termination participle

discerning, wise, judicious
Synonyms: callidus, prūdēns, sollers

Antonyms: īnsipiēns, stupidus, fatuus, stultus, āmēns, dēmēns
discrete
(masculine substantive) a wise man, sage, philosopher
- (Can we date this quote?) Anonymous
  Sapiens nihil affirmat quod non probat ― a wise man asserts nothing which he does not (ap)prove

	masc./fem.	neuter	masc./fem.	neuter
	singular		plural
nominative	sapiēns		sapientēs	sapientia
genitive	sapientis		sapientium
dative	sapientī		sapientibus
accusative	sapientem	sapiēns	sapientēs sapientīs	sapientia
ablative	sapiente sapientī¹		sapientibus
vocative	sapiēns		sapientēs	sapientia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

→ English: sapient, savant
Italian: saccente, → sapiente
Old French: savant, sachant, sapient (borrowed)
- French: savant, sachant, sapient (borrowed)
Piedmontese: sapient
→ Portuguese: sapiente
Romanian: sapient
Sicilian: saccenti, → sapienti
→ Spanish: sapiente
Translingual: Homo sapiens

“sapiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“sapiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
sapiens 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)
sapiens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a wise man is in no way affected by this: hoc nihil ad sapientem pertinet
- it is incompatible with the nature of a wise man; the wise are superior to such things: hoc in sapientem non cadit
- what do we understand by 'a wise man': quem intellegimus sapientem?

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