English word sense comes from Latin absens, Proto-Indo-European *snt-, Latin sine ((with ablative) without.)
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| absens | Latin (lat) | |
| *snt- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | |
| sine | Latin (lat) | (with ablative) without. |
| absentia | Latin (lat) | Absence. |
| sentio | Latin (lat) | I feel; I perceive with the senses. I have an opinion; I feel an emotion. I perceive: I notice mentally. |
| sensus | Latin (lat) | (poetic) understanding, reason. A feeling, sentiment. Perception, capability of feeling, ability to perceive. |
| *sinnaz | Proto-Germanic (gem-pro) | Sense (perception):. Sense, meaning. |
| *sinn | Frankish (frk) | Sense, reason, mental faculty. Way, direction. |
| *sennus | Latin (lat) | (Vulgar Latin) direction, way. (Vulgar Latin) sense, reason. |
| sens | Old French (fro) | Reason; ability to reason or think. |
| sense | Middle English (enm) | |
| sense | English (en) | To comprehend.. To instinctively be aware.. To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel. (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.. Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.. [...] |