sapiens – English noun declension

English noun forms of sapiens

Noun: sapiens
Singularsapiens
Pluralsapiens; sapientes

Sample Sentences

  • The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food. [2000, William H. Libaw, How we got to be human: subjective minds with objective bodies, page 277:]
  • Even if we assume that the rate of change was slow and the evolving population large, we must still assume that sapiens was rather isolated. [2005, Sherwood L. Washburn, Classification and Human Evolution, page 335:]

Nouns inflected like sapiens

sapiens, abies,

Etymology

From translingual Homo sapiens, from Latin sapiēns, present active participle of sapiō (“discern, be capable of discerning”). See: Latin Nouns 'sapiēns'.