sententia

American  

[sen-ten-shee-uh, -shuh] / sɛnˈtɛn ʃi ə, -ʃə /

noun

sententiae plural

1. an aphorism; maxim.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• sententiae
  plural

Etymology

Origin of sententia

First recorded in 1915–20; from Latin sententia; see origin at sentence ( def. )

Example Sentences

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sententia sententiae

The /voti sententia compos/ to which he says it became extended is interpreted by the commentators as meaning amatory poetry.

From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Mackail, J. W. (John William)

Pataky, wishing to conceal the fatal message from her, addressed Banfi in the Latin tongue— "Surge Domine! sententia lethalis adest!"

From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by J?kai, M?r

Claudian made the same observation, unburdening his heart in these well-known lines: Saepe mihi dubiam traxit sententia mentem, etc.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.

In that capacity he would be called on for his sententia first.

From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Shuckburgh, Evelyn S.

At Wrexham the tower is most magnificent; and in the church is a white marble monument of Lady Middleton, superior, "mea quidem sententia", to anything in Westminster Abbey.

From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by Turnbull, A.

Another author15 contrasts the sententiae of Ennius with the periodi of Pacuvius,—a distinction probably connected with the progress of oratory in the interval between the poets.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.

Seneca appealed to the renaissance not only on account of his verbal dexterity and point, but also on account of his moral maxims or sententiae.

From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen

He praises very highly such sententiae as "Virtue keeps its luster untarnished," and "know thyself."

From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen

It took the form of a caution against “mixing up things that differ,” and to this also among his sententiae I assented quod latius patet.

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

If nothing had survived of Seneca's plays but a collection of sententiae, we might have regretted his loss almost as we regret the loss of Menander.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth