Where does “nonsentience” come from?
nonsentience (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.
nonsentience (English): State of not being sentient
Definitions
- State of not being sentient
Ancestry of “nonsentience”, step by step
nonsentience traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English sentience
| 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 | — |