sapiēns, gen. sapientis

Definitions for sapiēns

Wheelock's Latin

Adjective

1
wise, judicious
2
as noun, a wise man, philosopher
English derivatives:
homo sapiens sapience insipience sapid insipid verbum sapiente savant sage

Oxford Latin Dictionary

Noun

1
m. [prec.] A wise man (esp. as implying a virtuous man). (b) a teacher of wisdom, sage, philosopher. (c) septem ~ntes, the seven sages of Greece.

Adjective

1
Endowed with a mind, rational. (b) of sound mind, sane.
2
(of persons) Wise, understanding, having sound judgement. (b) (of words, actions, etc.).
3
(as a cognomen, given esp. to jurisconsults).

Sentences with sapiēns

Latin to English

Sapientissimī auctōrēs plūrēs librōs scrībant ut omnēs gentēs adiuvāre possint.Compare Let the wisest authors write more books so that they may be able to help all peoples.

Claudia est sapiēns multīs.Compare To many people Claudia is wise.

Quisnam igitur liber? Sapiens, sibi qui imperiosus, quem neque pauperies neque mors neque vincula terrent, responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores fortis, et in se ipso totus, teres atque rotundusCompare Who then is free? The wise man alone, who is a stern master to himself, whom neither poverty nor death nor bonds affright, who has the courage to say "no" again and again to desires, to despise the object of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere "Vivam"; sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.Compare Believe me, a wise man never says. "I shall live"; to live tomorrow is too late: live today.

Hunc affectum adversus omnis habet sapiens, quem adversus aegros suos medicus.Compare The wise man's feeling toward all men is that of the physician toward his patients.

Ad summam: sapiens uno minor est Iove, dives, liber, honoratus, pulcher, rex denique regum, praecipue sanus, nisi sum pituita molest est.Compare The sum of it all is, the wise man ranks only second to Jove. He is rich, free, honored, beautiful, king (in fine) of kings—above all, he is sound, except when the phlegm troubles him.

Data sources

Notes

Definitions
Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 166.
P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1690.
Word frequencies
Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 121.

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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.

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Citation

Chicago (17th ed.)

Allo Contributors. "sapiēns, gen. sapientis (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified October 1, 2023. Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/sapiens-gen-sapientis.