scientia

scientia (plural scientias)

1. science, knowledge

• scientific
• scientista

From sciēns, present participle of sciō (“to know, understand”) +‎ -ia.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /skiˈen.ti.a/, [skɪˈɛn.ti.a]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ʃiˈen.t͡si.a/

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scientia f (genitive scientiae); first declension

1. knowledge
   • 1597, Sir Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacrae:

     Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.

     And thus knowledge itself is power.

First declension.

scientia

1. nominative neuter plural of sciēns
2. accusative neuter plural of sciēns
3. vocative neuter plural of sciēns

• scientia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scientia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scientia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• scientia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to possess literary knowledge: litterarum scientiam (only in sing.) habere
    
  • to acquire knowledge of a subject: scientiam alicuius rei consequi
    
  • (ambiguous) to acquire knowledge of a subject: scientia comprehendere aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to enrich a person's knowledge: scientia augere aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
    
  • (ambiguous) geographical knowledge: regionum terrestrium aut maritimarum scientia