sapiente
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sapientem (“discerning, wise”), present active participle of sapiō (“to be wise”). Doublet of saccente.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /saˈpjɛn.te/
- Rhymes: -ɛnte
- Hyphenation: sa‧pièn‧te
Adjective
sapiente m or f (plural sapienti)
Derived terms
Related terms
Noun
sapiente m or f by sense (plural sapienti)
Further reading
- sapiente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Participle
sapiente
- ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of sapiēns
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sapientem, present participle of sapiō (“to be wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *sap- (“to try; to research”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ẽti
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /sa.piˈẽ.t͡ʃi/ [sa.pɪˈẽ.t͡ʃi], (faster pronunciation) /saˈpjẽ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /sa.piˈẽ.te/ [sa.pɪˈẽ.te], (faster pronunciation) /saˈpjẽ.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /sɐˈpjẽ.tɨ/
- Hyphenation: sa‧pi‧en‧te
Adjective
sapiente m or f (plural sapientes, comparable, comparative mais sapiente, superlative o mais sapiente or sapientíssimo)
Synonyms
Antonyms
Related terms
- sapiência
- sapiencial
- sapientemente
- sapientização
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /saˈpjente/ [saˈpjẽn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ente
- Syllabification: sa‧pien‧te
Adjective
sapiente m or f (masculine and feminine plural sapientes)
Further reading
- “sapiente”, 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