sēnsus

sēns-us }Vorlage:lat. ‘Empfindung, Gesinnung, Ansicht, Sinn’

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsen.sus/, [ˈs̠ẽːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsen.sus/, [ˈsɛnsus]

Etymology 1

From sentiō (“feel, hear, see, perceive”) +‎ -tus (action noun suffix).

Noun

sēnsus m (genitive sēnsūs); fourth declension

1. faculty or power of perceiving; perception, feeling, sensation, sense
   1. (physically) perception, feeling, sensation
      1. capability of feeling, ability to perceive; sense
   2. (mentally) feeling, sentiment, emotion, affection; sense, understanding, capacity; humor, inclination, disposition, frame of mind
      1. opinion, thought, sense, view
      2. (usually in full sēnsus commūnis) common feelings of humanity; moral sense, taste, discretion, tact in intercourse with men
      3. (transferred sense, poetic) (of the thinking faculty) sense, understanding, mind, reason [ quotations ▼] [ synonyms ▲]

         Synonyms: mēns, ratiō

1. 1. 1. 1. (particularly of discourse):
            1. (abstract) sense, idea, notion, meaning, signification [ synonyms ▲]

               Synonyms: sententia, nōtiō, significātiō

            2. (concrete) thought expressed in words; sentence, period

Inflection

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sēnsus	sēnsūs
Genitive	sēnsūs	sēnsuum
Dative	sēnsuī	sēnsibus
Accusative	sēnsum	sēnsūs
Ablative	sēnsū	sēnsibus
Vocative	sēnsus	sēnsūs

Derived terms

• sēnsiculus
• sēnsifer
• sēnsificus
• sēnsilis
• sēnsiloquus
• sēnsus commūnis
• sēnsuālis
• sēnsātus
• sēnsōrium
• sēnsū lātō
• sēnsū strictō
• sēnsūtus