Noun: sententia
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: First
Nominative
| Singular | sententia |
| Plural | sententiae |
Genitive
| Singular | sententiae |
| Plural | sententiārum |
Dative
| Singular | sententiae |
| Plural | sententiīs |
Accusative
| Singular | sententiam |
| Plural | sententiās |
Ablative
| Singular | sententiā |
| Plural | sententiīs |
Vocative
| Singular | sententia |
| Plural | sententiae |
Sample Sentences
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Quot hominēs tot sententiae: suō’ quoique mōs. ([There are] as many opinions as there are people: to each his own way [of seeing things].) [161 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Phormio 454]
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meā (quidem) sententiā ((at least) in my view)
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ex animī sententiā (in my sincere opinion, in all honesty)
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ex (meā etc.) sententiā (to someone's liking)
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adversum, praeter animī sententiam (against someone's liking)
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dē suā ūnīus sententiā (on one's own initiative)
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sententiam ferre (to vote)
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in sententiam alicuius īre (to support someone's opinion or policy)
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sententiīsque magis quam verbīs abundantēs (overflowing with ideas rather than words to express them) [55 BCE, Cicero, De oratore 2.93]
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sententiae antiquae (ancient epigrams, classical sentences)
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sententiae antiquae (ancient epigrams, classical sentences)
Nouns inflected like sententia
scōria,
meschīta,
sewera,
zōnula,
ecclēsia,
concurrentia,
satira,
satura,
satyra,
sagīna,
sagēna,
sarīsa,
salīva,
salīna,
sampsa,
samara,
sacēna,
salvia,
sabīna,
sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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.
Verbs referencing "sententia"
English Nouns
sentence, French Nouns
sentence, Italian Nouns
sentenza, Portuguese Nouns
sentença, Hungarian Nouns
szentencia, Catalan Nouns
sentència, Russian Nouns
сентенция, Swedish Nouns
sentens, German Nouns
Sentenz, Polish Nouns
sentencja, Ukrainian Nouns
сентенція.
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