English
sentisection
Sentisection comes from Latin sentiō ‘to feel’, 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 CEsentiō2as sentire‘to feel’
- Englishearliest quotation 1883sentisection2
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin sentio, which cites LIV
- 2 Wiktionary, English sentisection
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1883, Burt Green Wilder, On the Brain of a Cat Lacking the Callosum: “The two kinds of vivisection, sentisection and callisection”.
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 sentisectionas sentire‘to feel’
- Englishearliest quotation 1883sentisectionWiktionary, English sentisection. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1883, Burt Green Wilder, On the Brain of a Cat Lacking the Callosum: “The two kinds of vivisection, sentisection and callisection”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *sent- ‘to feel’
through Proto-Italic *sentiō ‘to feel, to sense, to perceive’
senseless, insensible, antisense, 26 more
through Latin sentiō ‘to feel’
sense, sentence, sensitive, consent, sensible, consensus, sensor, scent, sentiment, sensation, sensual, sensibility, resent, assent, sensuous, sensu, sentience, 32 more
Today it means
noun painful vivisection, without the use of anesthetic
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “sentisection”; 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- / sentisection