sensatus

Meaning

sensible, intelligent, gifted with sense

Synonyms

Pronounced as (IPA)
[sẽːˈsaː.tʊs]
Etymology

From sēnsus (“faculty of sensation”) + -ātus. The lack of -u- is attributable to the fluctuation between u-stem and o-stem inflectional and derivational patterns that began early in Latin and caused more and more words to shift to o-stem patterns over time.

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