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Can sentitia also mean "feeling"/"sentiment" in Classical Latin, as it does in later Latin?
1893
Yes, I think, based on these definitions from a couple of Latin-English dictionaries:
https://www.online-latin-dictionary.com/latin-english-dictionary.php?parola=sententia
1 opinion, feeling, way of thinking
2 thought, meaning, sentence or period
3 purpose
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http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0060%3Aentry%3Dsententia
a way of thinking, opinion, judgment, sentiment, thought, notion, purpose, determination, decision, will, desire
I tend to start here for definitions:
Thanks. I'll report if I get marked wrong on that again. Because I studied medieval Latin (rather than elite literary late Republic/early Empire Latin that we push on schoolkids), I'm always a bit uncertain about semantic differences.
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I am a fellow medievalist, but my university taught classical as the default.
I had a year of very basic classical Latin in high school (pretty much useless; I remember a textbook with stories about a family in Pompeii) and did buy a paperback Wheelock to study on my own. However, since I didn't start formal Latin studies until grad school, I was never seriously exposed to the rarified literary Augustan Latin they shove down undergrads' throats.
Based solely on this course, I have to assume that drunk parrots and rampant weasels are common tropes in the works of Ovid and Horace. ;)
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ita est. they both loosened up considerably on the road-trip to Bostonia, Novum Eboracum & California and they will also both be riding the LRT very soon...
