conscient
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin consciens, conscientis, present participle.
Adjective
conscient (comparative more conscient, superlative most conscient)
- (obsolete) conscious; aware
- 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
- As we see in Augustus Cæsar, (who was rather diverse from his uncle, than inferior in virtue,) how when he died, he desired his friends about him to give him a plaudite, as if he were conscient to himself that he had played his part well upon the stage.
- 1893, Charles Letourneau, Sociology Based Upon Ethnography, page 552:
- In a word, the embryology and the taxinomy of the animal kinds, enlightened by the doctrine of transformism, show to us the slow acquisition of conscient life in the animal kingdom.
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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cōnscientem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [kun.siˈen]
- IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [kon.siˈent]
Audio (Barcelona): (file)
Adjective
conscient m or f (masculine and feminine plural conscients)
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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsciēns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.sjɑ̃/
Audio: (file)
Adjective
conscient (feminine consciente, masculine plural conscients, feminine plural conscientes)
- Physically alert; conscious
- aware of something's implications or consequences
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Further reading
- “conscient”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Latin
Verb
cōnscient
- third-person plural future active indicative of cōnsciō
Romanian
Adjective
conscient m or n (feminine singular conscientă, masculine plural conscienți, feminine/neuter plural consciente)
- obsolete form of conștient
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | conscient | conscientă | conscienți | consciente | |||
| definite | conscientul | conscienta | conscienții | conscientele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | conscient | consciente | conscienți | consciente | |||
| definite | conscientului | conscientei | conscienților | conscientelor | ||||
References
- conscient in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN