conscius

Latin

Etymology

From conscio (“I am privy to”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.ski.us/, [ˈkõːs̠kiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.ʃi.us/, [ˈkɔn̠ʲʃius]

Adjective

cōnscius (feminine cōnscia, neuter cōnscium); first/second-declension adjective

1. conscious
2. aware of, knowing of, conscious of, privy to

   Synonyms: cōnsciēns, cognōscēns, scius, sciēns

   Antonyms: ignārus, ignōrāns, īnscius, nescius, nesciēns, expers

3. aware of, knowing of, conscious of, privy to
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.519–520:

     [...] testātur moritūra deōs et cōnscia fātī / sīdera [...]

     [Dido, who is] about to die, invokes the gods and the stars aware of destiny [...]
     (sīdera cōnscia alludes to belief in astrology)

4. guilty

   Synonyms: reus, obnoxius, noxius

   Antonyms: īnsōns, castus, innocēns, innoxius

5. participant in a thing, an accessory, accomplice

   Synonym: minister

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cōnscius	cōnscia	cōnscium		cōnsciī	cōnsciae	cōnscia
Genitive	cōnsciī	cōnsciae	cōnsciī		cōnsciōrum	cōnsciārum	cōnsciōrum
Dative	cōnsciō		cōnsciō		cōnsciīs
Accusative	cōnscium	cōnsciam	cōnscium		cōnsciōs	cōnsciās	cōnscia
Ablative	cōnsciō	cōnsciā	cōnsciō		cōnsciīs
Vocative	cōnscie	cōnscia	cōnscium		cōnsciī	cōnsciae	cōnscia

Descendants

• Italian: conscio
• Portuguese: cônscio, concho
• Romanian: conștient
• → English: conscious (learned)
• → Proto-West Germanic: *kūskī, *kų̄skī (see there for further descendants)

References

• “conscius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conscius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conscius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a good conscience: mens bene sibi conscia
    
  • a guilty conscience: animus male sibi conscius
    
  • to be conscious of no ill deed: nullius culpae sibi conscium esse