Etymograph

English

sentential

Sentential comes from Latin sententialis ‘in the form of a sentence, sententious’, and goes back to sententia ‘opinion, thought, feeling’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsententia‘opinion, thought, feeling’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsententialis‘in the form of a sentence, sententious’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1985sentential

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

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  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsententia‘opinion, thought, feeling’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsententialis‘in the form of a sentence, sententious’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1985sentential

Earliest quotation: 1985, Dan Isaac Slobin, The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition: “Furthermore, children demonstrated that they understood the mapping by…”

Every English word from Latin sententia

Today it means

adj Relating to a sentence.

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