addiscens

Present participle of addiscō

addiscēns (genitive addiscentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. learning in addition to, further; increasing one’s knowledge by
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 14.50:

     Atque haec quidem studia doctrīnae, quae quidem prūdentibus et bene īnstitūtīs pariter cum aetāte crēscunt, ut honestum illud Solōnis sit, quod ait versiculō quōdam, ut ante dīxī, senēscere sē multa in diēs addiscentem, quā voluptāte animī nūlla certē potest esse maior.

     Furthermore, these intellectual pursuits — which, in the case of wise and well-trained men, grow right along with their age — lend credit to that famous remark of Solon. As I mentioned before, he declares in a certain verse that he grows old learning something new every single day; and surely, no pleasure of the mind can be greater than this.

2. informed, hearing, learning

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.