conscius

From conscio (“I am privy to”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkõː.ski.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔn̠ʲ.ʃi.us]

cōnscius (feminine cōnscia, neuter cōnscium); first/second-declension adjective

1. conscious
2. aware of, knowing of, conscious of, privy to

   Synonyms: cōnsciēns, cognōscēns, scius, sciēns

   Antonyms: ignārus, ignōrāns, īnscius, nescius, nesciēns, expers

3. aware of, knowing of, conscious of, privy to
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.519–520:

     [...] testātur moritūra deōs et cōnscia fātī / sīdera [...]

     [Dido, who is] about to die, invokes the gods and the stars aware of destiny [...]
     (sīdera cōnscia alludes to belief in astrology)

4. guilty

   Synonyms: reus, obnoxius, noxius

   Antonyms: īnsōns, castus, innocēns, innoxius

5. participant in a thing, an accessory, accomplice

   Synonym: minister

First/second-declension adjective.

• Italian: conscio
• Portuguese: cônscio, concho
• Romanian: conștient
• → English: conscious (learned)
• → Proto-West Germanic: *kūskī, *kų̄skī (see there for further descendants)

• “conscius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conscius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conscius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a good conscience: mens bene sibi conscia
    
  • a guilty conscience: animus male sibi conscius
    
  • to be conscious of no ill deed: nullius culpae sibi conscium esse