Where does “insentience” come from?
insentience (English) comes from English sentience, from English sentient, from Latin sentiēns, from Latin sentiō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
insentience (English): The condition of being insentient
Definitions
- The condition of being insentient
Ancestry of “insentience”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | sentience | The state or quality of being sentient;... |
| 2 | English | sentient | Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling; Able... |
| 3 | Latin | sentiēns | feeling, perceiving with the senses |
| 4 | Latin | sentiō | to feel, to sense, to perceive (with the senses) |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |