English
sentic
Sentic comes from Latin sentiō ‘to feel, to sense, to perceive’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *sent-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sent-1‘to feel’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sentiō1‘to feel, to sense, to perceive’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsentiō2‘to feel, to sense, to perceive’
- Englishearliest quotation 2004sentic2
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin sentio, which cites LIV
- 2 Wiktionary, English sentic
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2004, Immortality Institute, The Scientific Conquest of Death: “Time forms, which we call sentic forms, form the…”.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sent-Wiktionary, Latin sentio, which cites LIV‘to feel’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sentiōWiktionary, Latin sentio, which cites LIV‘to feel, to sense, to perceive’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsentiōWiktionary, English sentic‘to feel, to sense, to perceive’
- Englishearliest quotation 2004senticWiktionary, English sentic. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2004, Immortality Institute, The Scientific Conquest of Death: “Time forms, which we call sentic forms, form the…”
Formed from sentiō + -ic
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *sent- ‘to feel’
through Proto-Italic *sentiō ‘to feel, to sense, to perceive’
senseless, insensible, antisense, 28 more
through Latin sentiō ‘to feel, to sense, to perceive’
sense, sentence, sensitive, consent, consensus, sensible, sensor, sensation, scent, sensual, sensibility, resent, sensuous, assent, sensu, 34 more
Today it means
adj Of or pertaining to sentics.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “sentic”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin sentio. 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.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sent- / sentic