Etymograph

English

consension

Consension comes from Latin consensio ‘agreement, consent, harmony, unanimity’, from sentiō ‘to sense’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- ‘to perceive’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sent-1‘to perceive’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sentiō1‘to feel, to sense, to perceive’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsentiō1‘to sense’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnsentiō2
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconsensio3‘agreement, consent, harmony, unanimity’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1692consension3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin consentio
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin consensio
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English consension
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1692, Richard Bentley, London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock]: “one greater individual Animal , with one Mind and…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sent-Wiktionary, Latin consentio‘to perceive’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sentiōWiktionary, Latin consentio‘to feel, to sense, to perceive’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsentiōWiktionary, Latin consentio‘to sense’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnsentiōWiktionary, Latin consensio
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconsensioWiktionary, English consension‘agreement, consent, harmony, unanimity’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1692consensionWiktionary, English consension. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1692, Richard Bentley, London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock]: “one greater individual Animal , with one Mind and…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sent- ‘to perceive’

send, sith, 31 more

through Proto-Italic *sentiō ‘to feel, to sense, to perceive’

senseless, antisense, insensible, 27 more

through Latin sentiō ‘to sense’

sense, sentence, sensitive, sentiment, scent, sensor, sensible, sensation, resent, sensual, sentient, sensibility, assent, sensuous, sentience, sensu, 33 more

Today it means

noun Agreement; accord.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “consension”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin consentio, Latin consensio. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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