sententia

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Etymology[edit]

Either from earlier *sentientia, from Proto-Italic *sentjentjā, equivalent to sentiens (feeling, perceiving) +‎ -ia; or from Proto-Italic *sententjā, a remnant of a PIE root aorist.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

sententia f (genitive sententiae); first declension

  1. a way of thinking, view, opinion, judgement or sentence
    Synonyms: mēns, sēnsus
    Coordinate terms: opīniō, arbitrātum, auctōritās, cōgitātiō, exīstimātiō
    meā (quidem) sententiā(at least) in my view
    ex animī sententiāin my sincere opinion, in all honesty
    ex (meā etc.) sententiāto someone's liking
    adversum, praeter animī sententiamagainst someone's liking
    dē suā ūnīus sententiāon one's own initiative
  2. a purpose, intention, will (one's thinking in respect to the future)
    Synonyms: cōnsilium, voluntās
  3. (politics) a vote of opinion (expressed in senate in response to an interrogātiō)
    1. the vote of a juryman or of a jury
    Synonym: suffrāgium
    sententiam ferreto vote
    in sententiam alicuius īreto support somone's opinion or policy
  4. (politics) an authoritative decision, pronouncement, judgement, decree
    Synonyms: dēcrētum, arbitrium, jūdicium, statūtum
  5. a feeling, sense, idea, notion
    Synonym: cōgitātum
    • 55 BCE, Cicero, De Oratore 2.93:
      sententiīsque magis quam verbīs abundantēs
      overflowing with ideas rather than words to express them
    1. the main drift, substance; spirit of a law (as opposed to letter)
  6. a thought expressed in words; a sense, meaning, signification
    Synonym: sēnsus
    1. any terse and pointed observation (esp. moralistic); a maxim, epigram
      Synonyms: praeceptum, adāgium
    2. (grammar) a self-contained group of words, a finished clause, sentence, period
      Synonyms: sēnsus, periodus

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sententia sententiae
Genitive sententiae sententiārum
Dative sententiae sententiīs
Accusative sententiam sententiās
Ablative sententiā sententiīs
Vocative sententia sententiae

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Further reading[edit]

  • sententia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sententia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sententia 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)
  • sententia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • as one would wish; to one's mind: ex sententia
    • to abide by, persist in one's opinion: in sententia manere, permanere, perseverare, perstare
    • to give up one's opinion: a sententia sua discedere
    • to give up one's opinion: de sententia sua decedere
    • to give up one's opinion: (de) sententia desistere
    • to be forced to change one's mind: de sententia deici, depelli, deterreri
    • to make a man change his opinion: de sententia aliquem deducere, movere
    • to win a man over to one's own way of thinking: aliquem ad suam sententiam perducere or in suam sententiam adducere
    • to adopt some one's opinion: ad alicuius sententiam accedere, sententiam alicuius sequi
    • to freely express one's opinions: sententiam suam aperire
    • not to betray one's feelings by one's looks: sententiam fronte celare, tegere
    • I think that..: in hac sum sententia, ut...putem
    • to discuss a subject more fully on the same lines: plura in eam sententiam disputare
    • according to my opinion: mea (quidem) sententia
    • many men, many minds: quot homines, tot sententiae
    • according to my strong conviction: ex animi mei sententia (vid. sect. XI. 2)
    • to alter one's views, intentions: consilium, sententiam mutare
    • I am firmly resolved: stat mihi sententia (Liv. 21. 30.)
    • those views are out of date: illae sententiae evanuerunt
    • those ideas have long ago been given up: illae sententiae iam pridem explosae et eiectae sunt (Fin. 5. 8. 23)
    • to explain one's sentiments: sententias (verbis) explicare, aperire
    • profound sentiments: sententiae reconditae ex exquisitae (Brut. 97. 274)
    • richness of ideas: crebritas or copia (opp. inopia) sententiarum or simply copia
    • rich in ideas: sententiis abundans or creber (opp. sententiis inanis)
    • the connection: sententiae inter se nexae
    • the connection: contextus orationis (not nexus, conexus sententiarum)
    • the connection of thought: ratio sententiarum
    • the connection of thought: ratio, qua sententiae inter se excipiunt.
    • to answer to this effect: respondere in hanc sententiam
    • the sentence, proposition: enuntiatio, enuntiatum, sententia
    • what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quae notio or sententia subiecta est huic voci?
    • to hold by the letter (of the law): verba ac litteras or scriptum (legis) sequi (opp. sententia the spirit)
    • the terms, contents of the letter are as follows: litterae in hanc sententiam or his verbis scriptae sunt
    • to love deeply: aliquem ex animo or ex animi sententia amare (Q. Fr. 1. 1. 5)
    • I swear on my conscience: ex animi mei sententia iuro
    • to vote (in the popular assembly): suffragium ferre (vid. sect. VI. 4, note Not sententiam...)
    • the spirit of the law: sententia or voluntas legis
    • to ask the opinion of..: sententiam rogare, interrogare
    • to give an opinion (also used of a judge, cf. sect. VI. 4): sententiam dicere
    • the senate inclines to the opinion, decides for..: senatus sententia inclīnat ad... (De Sen. 6. 16)
    • the majority were of the opinion..: sententia vincit (Liv. 2. 4. 3)
    • to vote for some one's motion: discedere (pedibus), ire in alicuius sententiam (Liv. 23. 10)
    • the finding of the jury: sententiae iudicum
    • to give sentence (of the judge, cf. sect. VI. 4, note Not...): sententiam ferre, dicere (Off. 3. 16. 66)
    • the tenor of his speech was this..: hanc in sententiam dixit