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Where does “presentience” come from?

presentience (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.

presentience (English): the act of sensing before the event

Definitions

  1. the act of sensing before the event

Ancestry of “presentience”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsentienceThe state or quality of being sentient;...
2EnglishsentientExperiencing sensation, thought, or feeling; Able...
3Latinsentiēns—
4Latinsentiō—
5Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
6Latin-tōrius—
7Latin-tor-er
8Proto-Italic-tōr—
9Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
10Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →