# sententia
## Latin
### Etymology

Either from earlier *sentientia, from Proto-Italic *sentjentjā, equivalent to sentiens (“feeling, perceiving”) +‎ -ia; or from Proto-Italic *sententjā, a remnant of a PIE root aorist.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /senˈten.ti.a/, [s̠ɛn̪ˈt̪ɛn̪t̪iä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /senˈten.t͡si.a/, [sen̪ˈt̪ɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

### Noun

sententia f (genitive sententiae); first declension
* a way of thinking, view, opinion, judgement or sentence
    Synonyms: mēns, sēnsus
    Coordinate terms: opīniō, arbitrātum, auctōritās, cōgitātiō, exīstimātiō
    meā (quidem) sententiā ― (at least) in my view
    ex animī sententiā ― in my sincere opinion, in all honesty
    ex (meā etc.) sententiā ― to someone's liking
    adversum, praeter animī sententiam ― against someone's liking
    dē suā ūnīus sententiā ― on one's own initiative
* a purpose, intention, will (one's thinking in respect to the future)
    Synonyms: cōnsilium, voluntās
* (politics) a vote of opinion (expressed in senate in response to an interrogātiō)
** the vote of a juryman or of a jury
    Synonym: suffrāgium
    sententiam ferre ― to vote
    in sententiam alicuius īre ― to support someone's opinion or policy
* (politics) an authoritative decision, pronouncement, judgement, decree
    Synonyms: dēcrētum, arbitrium, jūdicium, statūtum
* a feeling, sense, idea, notion
    Synonym: cōgitātum
** 55 BCE, Cicero, De Oratore 2.93:sententiīsque magis quam verbīs abundantēsoverflowing with ideas rather than words to express them
** the main drift, substance; spirit of a law (as opposed to letter)
* a thought expressed in words; a sense, meaning, signification
    Synonym: sēnsus
** any terse and pointed observation (esp. moralistic); a maxim, epigram
    Synonyms: praeceptum, adāgium
** (grammar) a self-contained group of words, a finished clause, sentence, period
    Synonyms: sēnsus, periodus

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* sententiālis
* sententiola
* sententiōsus

#### Descendants

* → English: sentence, → English: sentential, → English: sententious
* → French: sentence
* → Hungarian: szentencia
* → Italian: sentenza
* → Portuguese: sentença
* → Romanian: sentință
* → Russian: сенте́нция (sentɛ́ncija)
* → Spanish: sentencia

### References

* “sententia” on page 1913 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

### Further reading

* “sententia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “sententia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* sententia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* sententia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. as one would wish; to one's mind: ex sententia to abide by, persist in one's opinion: in sententia manere, permanere, perseverare, perstare to give up one's opinion: a sententia sua discedere to give up one's opinion: de sententia sua decedere to give up one's opinion: (de) sententia desistere to be forced to change one's mind: de sententia deici, depelli, deterreri to make a man change his opinion: de sententia aliquem deducere, movere to win a man over to one's own way of thinking: aliquem ad suam sententiam perducere or in suam sententiam adducere to adopt some one's opinion: ad alicuius sententiam accedere, sententiam alicuius sequi to freely express one's opinions: sententiam suam aperire not to betray one's feelings by one's looks: sententiam fronte celare, tegere I think that..: in hac sum sententia, ut...putem to discuss a subject more fully on the same lines: plura in eam sententiam disputare according to my opinion: mea (quidem) sententia many men, many minds: quot homines, tot sententiae according to my strong conviction: ex animi mei sententia (vid. sect. XI. 2) to alter one's views, intentions: consilium, sententiam mutare I am firmly resolved: stat mihi sententia (Liv. 21. 30.) those views are out of date: illae sententiae evanuerunt those ideas have long ago been given up: illae sententiae iam pridem explosae et eiectae sunt (Fin. 5. 8. 23) to explain one's sentiments: sententias (verbis) explicare, aperire profound sentiments: sententiae reconditae ex exquisitae (Brut. 97. 274) richness of ideas: crebritas or copia (opp. inopia) sententiarum or simply copia rich in ideas: sententiis abundans or creber (opp. sententiis inanis) the connection: sententiae inter se nexae the connection: contextus orationis (not nexus, conexus sententiarum) the connection of thought: ratio sententiarum the connection of thought: ratio, qua sententiae inter se excipiunt. to answer to this effect: respondere in hanc sententiam the sentence, proposition: enuntiatio, enuntiatum, sententia what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quae notio or sententia subiecta est huic voci? to hold by the letter (of the law): verba ac litteras or scriptum (legis) sequi (opp. sententia the spirit) the terms, contents of the letter are as follows: litterae in hanc sententiam or his verbis scriptae sunt to love deeply: aliquem ex animo or ex animi sententia amare (Q. Fr. 1. 1. 5) I swear on my conscience: ex animi mei sententia iuro to vote (in the popular assembly): suffragium ferre (vid. sect. VI. 4, note Not sententiam...) the spirit of the law: sententia or voluntas legis to ask the opinion of..: sententiam rogare, interrogare to give an opinion (also used of a judge, cf. sect. VI. 4): sententiam dicere the senate inclines to the opinion, decides for..: senatus sententia inclīnat ad... (De Sen. 6. 16) the majority were of the opinion..: sententia vincit (Liv. 2. 4. 3) to vote for some one's motion: discedere (pedibus), ire in alicuius sententiam (Liv. 23. 10) the finding of the jury: sententiae iudicum to give sentence (of the judge, cf. sect. VI. 4, note Not...): sententiam ferre, dicere (Off. 3. 16. 66) the tenor of his speech was this..: hanc in sententiam dixit