consent
English
/kənˈsɛnt/
verb
Definitions
- To express willingness, to give permission.
- (medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
- (obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
- To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
Etymology
Derived from Old French consentir derived from Latin cōnsentīre root from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (feel, go, head for, true, being, head).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*sent-
Gloss
feel, go, head for, true, being, head
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
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Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- consensual English
- consentee English
- consenter English
- consentest English
- consenteth English
- consentful English
- consentless English
- consentual English
- consentually English
- disconsent English
- dissent English
- e-consent English
- nonconsent English
- nonconsenter English
- preconsent English
- reconsent English
- unconsent English
- cōnsentiō, cōnsentīre, consentio Latin
- cōnsentīre Latin
- cōnsēnsus Latin
- dissēnsus Latin
- sensificus Latin
- sensus Latin
- sentio Latin
- sentio, sentiō, sentīre Latin
- sentīre Latin
- sēnsus Latin
- consentire Italian
- consentir French
- *sent- Proto-Indo-European
- *sent-n- Proto-Indo-European
- *sentnos Proto-Indo-European
- *gasinþiją Proto-Germanic
- *sinþaz Proto-Germanic
- *sunjō Proto-Germanic
- assent Old French
- boin sens Old French
- consentir Old French
- هناییدن Persian
- *sinn gmw-pro
- *sentus Proto-Celtic
- *sinn Frankish
- sintėti Lithuanian