Proto-Indo-European

*sent-

‘to perceive’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *sent-.

53 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *sent-, most familiar first.

• sense ← sens ← *sennus ← *sinn ← *sinnaz
• send ← senden ← sendan ← *sandijan ← *sandijaną
• sentence ← sententia ← sentiēns ← sentiō ← *sentiō
• sensitive ← sensitif ← sensitivus ← sentiō ← *sentiō
• consent ← consentir ← cōnsentīre ← sentiō ← *sentiō
• consensus ← cōnsentiō ← sentiō ← *sentiō
• sentiment ← sentement ← sentimentum ← sentiō ← *sentiō
• sensible ← sēnsibilis ← sentiō ← *sentiō
• sensor ← sentiō ← *sentiō
• sensation ← sensus ← sentiō ← *sentiō
• scent ← sent ← sentir ← sentiō
• resent ← ressentir ← resentir ← sentir ← sentiō

More words from *sent-

• sensual
• senseless
• sensibility
• sentient
• assent
• sith
• sensuous
• sentience
• antisense
• sensu
• insensible
• sensorial
• missense
• sensate
• sensorium
• insensate
• ressentiment
• ambisense
• assentator
• assentation
• consentaneous
• consension
• dissensus
• foresense
• multisense
• oversense
• presension
• resentiment
• sentics
• sensillum
• senteur
• sensable
• sensist
• sensuism
• sentisection
• sensism
• sensuist
• senser
• sentic
• subsense
• supersense

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sent-