The story
- Latin · derived fromsapientia“wisdom”
- Ecclesiastical Latin · derived fromsapientiālis
- Middle English · inherited fromsapyencyall
- English todaysapiential
From Middle English sapyencyall, from Old French or Late Latin/Ecclesiastical Latin sapientiālis, from Latin sapientia (“wisdom”) + -ālis (“-al”).
Words from the same roots
Latinsapientia all →
sapience
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.