conscientia
Latin
Etymology
From cōnsciēns (“conscious”) + -ia, a calque of Ancient Greek συνείδησις (suneídēsis).
Noun
cōnscientia f (genitive cōnscientiae); first declension
- knowledge shared with others, being in the know or privy to, joint knowledge; complicity
- knowledge within oneself, consciousness, feeling
- knowledge within oneself of right or wrong; conscience; remorse
Declension
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cōnscientia | cōnscientiae |
Genitive | cōnscientiae | cōnscientiārum |
Dative | cōnscientiae | cōnscientiīs |
Accusative | cōnscientiam | cōnscientiās |
Ablative | cōnscientiā | cōnscientiīs |
Vocative | cōnscientia | cōnscientiae |
Derived terms
- cōnscientiōsus
Descendants
- Catalan: consciència
- English: conscience
- French: conscience
- Friulian: cussience
- → Old High German: giwizzani (calque)
- German: Gewissen
- Irish: coinsias
- Italian: coscienza
- Ladin: cuscienza, coscïenza, cosciënza
- Ligurian: conscensa, coscensa
- Piedmontese: cossiensa, consiensa
- Portuguese: consciência
- Romanian: conștiință
- Spanish: consciencia, conciencia
- Venetian: cosienza
References
- conscĭentĭa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- conscientia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- conscientia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- conscĭentĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, pages 398–399
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a good conscience: conscientia recta, recte facti (factorum), virtutis, bene actae vitae, rectae voluntatis
- a guilty conscience: conscientia mala or peccatorum, culpae, sceleris, delicti
- to be conscience-stricken: conscientia morderi (Tusc. 4. 20. 45)
- his guilty conscience gives him no rest: conscientiae maleficiorum stimulant aliquem
- to be tormented by remorse: conscientia mala angi, excruciari
- to congratulate oneself on one's clear conscience: conscientia recte factorum erigi
- a good conscience: conscientia recta, recte facti (factorum), virtutis, bene actae vitae, rectae voluntatis
- conscientia in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 27.02.03) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “conscientia” on page 411/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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