sentir
French
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) to smell to have a certain odor
- (transitive) to taste
- (transitive) to feel (physical perception)
- (transitive) to smell of, taste of
- (transitive) to smack of; to indicate, foreshadow
- (transitive) to have the character, manner, feeling or appearance of; to give a feeling of
- (transitive) to feel, be aware of, be conscious of
- (reflexive) to feel (in oneself)
- (reflexive) to show, be felt (of effect, improvement etc.)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French sentir (feel, perceive, smell) inherited from Latin sentīre (feel) 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
- scent English
- senteur English
- cōnsentīre Latin
- cōnsēnsus Latin
- dissēnsus Latin
- sensificus Latin
- sensus Latin
- sentio Latin
- sentio, sentiō, sentīre Latin
- sentiō, sentīre Latin
- sentīre Latin
- sēnsus Latin
- sentire Italian
- pressentir French
- ressentiment French
- ressentir French
- senteur French
- sentir Spanish, Castilian
- *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
- resentir Old French
- sentir Old French
- sentire Old French
- simți Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- هناییدن Persian
- senti Norman
- *sinn gmw-pro
- sentido Old Portuguese
- sentir Old Portuguese
- *sentus Proto-Celtic
- simtsiri Aromanian
- sentir Asturian
- sintî Friulian
- *sinn Frankish
- sintėti Lithuanian
- sentir Old Occitan
- sentir Venetian
- senter Dalmatian
- sintir Ladino
- santi Haitian, Haitian Creole
- sinti Walloon
- sentì Neapolitan
- synhwyr Middle Welsh
- senti Louisiana Creole French