nescio

From ne- +‎ scio. Akin to Latin nescius (“ignorant”).

• IPA^(key): /nesˈt͡sio/
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: nes‧ci‧o

nescio (accusative singular nescion, plural nescioj, accusative plural nesciojn)

1. ignorance

   Synonyms: malinteligento, malinteligenteco, malsaĝo, malsagêco, stulto, stulteco

• nescia

From Latin nescius.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛʃ.ʃo/
• Rhymes: -ɛʃʃo
• Hyphenation: nè‧scio

nescio (feminine nescia, masculine plural nesci, feminine plural nescie or nesce)

1. (archaic) nescient, ignorant, unaware

• nescio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• cenosi, coseni, cosine, inceso, osceni

• nōn sciō, nōsciō (nonstandard when used as a full synonym)

From Latin ne- (“not”) +‎ sciō (“I know”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnɛs.ki.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnɛʃ.ʃi.o]

nesciō (present infinitive nescīre, perfect active nescīvī or nesciī, supine nescītum); fourth conjugation

1. to not know, to be ignorant, to not understand
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.565–566:

     “Quis genus Aeneadum? Quis Troiae nesciat urbem,
     virtūtēsque, virōsque, aut tantī incendia bellī?”

     “Who does not know the race of Aeneas? Who [has never heard of] the city of Troy, and its courage, and heroes, or the flames of that great war?”

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.255–256:

     sed quae nescieram, quōrumque errōre tenēbar,
     cognita sunt nūllō praecipiente mihi.

     But [those things] of which I had not known, as well as those I misunderstood, were [suddenly] known to me without anyone having taught [them to me].
     (The poet receives divine enlightenment during an encounter with Vesta (mythology); see also Vestalia.)

   Synonym: ignōrō

   Antonyms: sciō, sentiō, cōnsciō, nōscō, inveniō

   • Carl von Linné, Critica botanica:

     Nōmina sī nescīs, perit et cognitio rērum

     If you do not know names, the knowledge of the things is also lost

   • From For Marcus Caelius by Cicero (Latin and English translation may be found here, also English and Latin on Wikisource)

     Quae tu quoniam mente nescio qua effrenata atque praecipiti in forum deferri iudiciumque voluisti, aut diluas oportet ac falsa esse doceas aut nihil neque crimini tuo neque testimonio credendum esse fateare.

     And as for you, since, through some unbridled and headlong fury which I cannot comprehend you have chosen these things to be brought into court, and dilated on at this trial, you must either efface the charges yourself, and show that they are without foundation, or else you must confess that no credit is to be given to any accusations which you may make, or to any evidence which you may give.

   Nōmen nesciō (N. N.) ― I do not know the name

• Aromanian: nishti
• → English: nescient
• Italian: nescire
• Megleno-Romanian: niști
• Romanian: nești, neștine, niște, niscai

• “nescio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nescio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nescio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • by some chance or other: nescio quo casu (with Indic.)
    
  • an anonymous writer: nescio quis
    
  • the book is attributed to an unknown writer: liber refertur ad nescio quem auctorem
    

nescio

1. alternative form of nesciu

nescio (feminine nescia, masculine plural nescios, feminine plural nescias)

1. obsolete spelling of necio

• “nescio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024