sens
French
noun
Definitions
- sense
- meaning
- direction
Etymology
Inherited from Old French sens, san, sen (reason, sense, direction) borrowed from Latin sensus (feeling, sense, sensation, meaning) derived from Frankish *sinn (sense, judgement, mental faculty, way, direction, mind, reason) inherited from Latin *sennus derived from *sinn (mind, meaning, sense) derived 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
- dissent English
- sense English
- sensifacient English
- sensual English
- *sennus Latin
- cōnsentīre Latin
- cōnsēnsus Latin
- dissēnsus Latin
- sensatio Latin
- sensificus Latin
- sensualis Latin
- sensus Latin
- sentio Latin
- sentio, sentiō, sentīre Latin
- sentīre Latin
- sēnsus Latin
- bisenso Italian
- controsenso Italian
- doppiosenso Italian
- polisenso Italian
- senno Italian
- senso Italian
- soprassenso Italian
- assener French
- contresens French
- sensitiva Spanish, Castilian
- seso Spanish, Castilian
- *sent- Proto-Indo-European
- *sent-n- Proto-Indo-European
- *sentnos Proto-Indo-European
- sans Norwegian Bokmål
- *gasinþiją Proto-Germanic
- *sinþaz Proto-Germanic
- *sunjō Proto-Germanic
- sans Norwegian Nynorsk
- sense Middle English
- asener Old French
- assent Old French
- boin sens Old French
- forsener Old French
- sens Old French
- sens, san, sen Old French
- senco Esperanto
- sens Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- هناییدن Persian
- sin Old High German
- *sinn gmw-pro
- sin Old Dutch
- siso Old Portuguese
- *sentus Proto-Celtic
- sin Middle Low German
- *sinn Frankish
- sintėti Lithuanian
- sen Old Occitan
- sinn Old Frisian
- sensu Corsican