science
Middle English
/siːˈɛns(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- facts, knowledge; that which is known:
- One's faculty of finding information; knowing or insight
- One's faculty of making sound decisions; sagaciousness.
- One's aptitude or learning; one's knowledge (in a field).
- A non-learned discipline, pursuit, or field.
- (rare) verifiability; trust in knowledge.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French science derived from Latin scientia (knowledge).
Origin
Latin
scientia
Gloss
knowledge
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- agriscience English
- agroscience English
- antiscience English
- bioscience English
- broscience English
- cyberscience English
- e-science English
- ethnoscience English
- exoscience English
- geoscience English
- geroscience English
- glycoscience English
- hydroscience English
- inscience English
- interscience English
- metascience English
- multiscience English
- nanoscience English
- neuroscience English
- nonscience English
- palaeoscience English
- paleoscience English
- palæoscience English
- parascience English
- photoscience English
- proscience English
- protoscience English
- pseudo-science English
- pseudoscience English
- quasiscience English
- science English
- science fact English
- science oven English
- scienceless English
- sciencelike English
- scienceman English
- sciencey English
- sciency English
- scientism English
- subscience English
- superscience English
- technoscience English
- telescience English
- unscience English
- ur-science English
- xenoscience English
- scientia Latin
- scientificus Latin
- sciēns Latin
- sciō Latin
- scienza Italian
- science French
- ciencia Spanish, Castilian
- *skei- Proto-Indo-European
- *skey- Proto-Indo-European
- ciência Portuguese
- サイエンス Japanese
- escience Old French
- science Old French
- ciència Catalan, Valencian
- ciencia Galician
- știință Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- scienche Norman
- sains Malay
- shkencë Albanian
- science Middle French
- 賽恩斯 Chinese
- shtiintsã Aromanian
- sayansi Swahili
- sciéncia Occitan
- ciencia Asturian
- sience Friulian
- sçiençia Old Spanish
- sienza Venetian
- saiens Tok Pisin
- סינסיה Ladino