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Where does “sensory” come from?

Sensory derives from New Latin sensorius, from Latin sensus meaning perception or feeling, from Latin sentire meaning to perceive, tracing back through Proto-Indo-European sent- to the root h₁es- meaning to be.

sensory (English): Of the senses or sensation; sensorium; An organ...

Definitions

  1. Of the senses or sensation; sensorium; An organ...

Ancestry of “sensory”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsenseAny of the manners by which living beings...
2Middle Englishsense—
3Old Frenchsensreason; ability to reason or think
4Latinsēnsus—
5Dutchcensus—
6Latincensuscensus, a registering of the populace and their...
7LatincenseoI give an opinion; I think, suppose or judge; I...
8Proto-Italickensēōto give an opinion
9Proto-Italickensējō—
10Proto-Indo-Europeanḱens-éh₁-ye-ti—
11Proto-Indo-Europeanḱens-to announce, to proclaim; to put in order
12Proto-Indo-Europeanḱem-to cover, conceal; hornless

Words derived from “sensory”

  • somatosensory
  • multisensory
  • chemosensory
  • neurosensory
  • mechanosensory
  • sensorily
  • nonsensory
  • electrosensory
  • intersensory
  • supersensory
  • suprasensory
  • polysensory
  • orosensory
  • viscerosensory
  • photosensory
  • unisensory
  • thermosensory
  • psychosensory
  • subsensory
  • bisensory
  • biosensory
  • osmosensory
  • multisensorily
  • audiosensory
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