sensus

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

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

sēnsus m (feminine sēnsa, neuter sēnsum); first/second declension

1. felt, perceived with the senses, having felt (with the hands)
2. perceived: noticed mentally, having perceived
3. having had an opinion, having felt emotion

First/second declension.

• sēnsa

Action noun from sentiō (“feel, perceive”).

sēnsus m (genitive sēnsūs); fourth declension

1. perception, capability of feeling, ability to perceive
2. a feeling, sentiment
3. (poetic) understanding, reason

Fourth declension.

• Corsican: sensu
• Italian: senso
• Old French: sens, sen, san (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
• → Romanian: sens
• → Galician: senso
• → Portuguese: senso

• 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, 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