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

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 Evelyn S. Shuckburgh

The solutions have been extracted from the various views or practices which prevail, and represent what may be called the media sententia.

From Great Britain's Sea Policy A Reply to an American Critic reprinted from 'The Atlantic Monthly' by Gilbert Murray

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 J. W. (John William) Mackail

Sometimes indeed they are spoken of as ‘Fata Iovis;’ and to the assurance given by him to Venus ‘manent immota tuorum Fata tibi,’ he adds the words ‘neque me sententia vertit523.’

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar

This proposition may be characterized as sententia communior et probabilior.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss

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 Donald Lemen Clark

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 W. Y. Sellar

The consul acted as chairman of the Senate, proposing the order of the day, and asking the senators in order of seniority for their sententiae on the appropriate action for the question under discussion.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg

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 Donald Lemen Clark

We may suppose that his plays were of the same type as those of Publilius, and interspersed with those wise sayings, sententiae, which the Roman people were still capable of appreciating.

From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde Fowler