English → Latin
“science” in Latin
sciōto be able to, to know (how to do), understand, to have practical knowledge; to have had sex with, have ever slept withnōtitiafame, renown, celebrity; knowledge; acquaintancecognitiōlearning, study (acquisition of knowledge); knowledge, cognition, cognizance; investigation, judicial examination, inquiarsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagemdoctrīnateaching, instruction; learning, erudition; doctrine, theorydisciplīnateaching, instruction, education; training; learning, knowledge, discipline, science, studylitteraletter (of the alphabet); handwriting; letter, epistle
The English word science itself goes back to Latin sciō, through scientia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
science
scientia: notitia: cognitio (in the subjective sense, of the knowledge which one has, not of the thing which one knows): ars (objective): doctrina: disciplina (objective; of any particular branch). The sciences, doctrinae: disciplinae: disciplinae studia, plur.; litterae: litterarum studia (plur.; ☞ but not scientiae, which can be used only in a subjective sense). Arts and sciences, ingenua studia atque artes. The liberal sciences, liberales doctrinae atque ingenuae; liberales disciplinae (☞ not studia humaniora or litterae humaniores): to reduce to a science, aliquid arte concludere, aliquid ad artem et praecepta revocare; ☞ not ad artis regulas revocare: to study a science, doctrina, or disciplina, imbui or erudiri
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for science?
- The usual Latin words for “science” are sciō, nōtitia, cognitiō; also ars, doctrīna, disciplīna. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.