Latin

sciō

‘to be able to, to know (how to do), understand, to have practical knowledge’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Latin sciō.

22 English words in this record descend from Latin sciō, most familiar first.

• nice ← nyce ← nescius ← nesciō
• science ← scientia ← sciēns
• scientific ← scientifique ← scientificus ← scientia ← sciēns
• conscious ← cōnscius
• nicely ← nycely ← nyce ← nice ← nescius
• omniscience ← scientia ← sciēns
• prescience ← praescientia ← praesciens ← praesciō
• scient ← sciēns
• scienter ← sciēns
• adscititious ← adscitus ← ascīscō ← scīscō
• nescient ← nesciēns ← nesciō
• omniscious ← omniscius

More words from sciō

• plebiscitum
• sciolism
• sciolist
• scita
• scienda
• sciential
• sciolous
• sciscitation
• scitament
• unscience

Etymograph / Latin sciō