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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈsẽː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈsɛn.sus]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''sēnsus''' ''m'' (genitive sēnsūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|sentio|-tus|alt1=sentiō|t1=to feel, perceive]], an action noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) The verb is [[inh|itc-pro|*s(e)nt-ije/o-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*snt-ie/o-]]; its meaning connects it with a Balto-Slavic root *snt- “to think”.^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ De Vaan finds it from Varro onwards,^(de Vaan 2008) who says the greatest of the five senses is in the eyes,^(OLD 2012) and Köbler from Catullus.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant the capacity to perceive, sensation, and each of the five senses, which the Rhetorica ad Herennium lists as sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste.^(OLD 2012) It meant a sensation or impression, the faculties of perception, and consciousness, as Cicero's “we are born without awareness”.^(OLD 2012)
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+ It meant judgment or understanding, as in ''sensus communis'', the common sense of ordinary people, feeling or emotion, one's feelings towards someone, and an idea or thought.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) In rhetoric Quintilian used it of a sentence or period.^(OLD 2012) English ''sense'' came from it through Old French in the late 14th century, first as “meaning”.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of the five senses.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 86/82 BC – The Rhetorica ad Herennium lists the five senses.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of consciousness and judgment.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of a sentence.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''sense'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Perception, sensation.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # A [[m|en|sense]] (sight, hearing, etc.).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # An impression, sensation.^(OLD 2012)
+ # The faculties of perception.^(OLD 2012)
+ # [[m|en|Consciousness]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # Judgment, understanding, ''sensus communis'': common feeling, common sense.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # A feeling, emotion.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # One's attitude, sentiment (towards someone).^(OLD 2012)
+ # An idea, thought.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(rhetoric)'' A sentence, period.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[exsensus]]
+ * [[sēnsātus]]
+ * [[sensiculus]]
+ * [[sēnsifer]]
+ * [[sēnsificō]]
+ * [[sēnsificus]]
+ * [[sēnsilis]]
+ * [[sēnsilocus]]
+ * [[sēnsuālis]]
+ * [[sēnsūtus]]
+ * [[sēnsiloquus]]
+ * [[sēnsōrium]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[sentio]]
+ * [[en|sense]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}