Etymology

sensist

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Today it means: sensualist. Full definition →

English sense ← Middle English sense ← Old French sens
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sent-
  2. Proto-Italic*sentiō
  3. Latinsentiō
  4. Latinsēnsu
  5. Proto-Germanic*sinnaz
  6. Frankish*sinn
  7. Vulgar Latin*sennus
  8. Old Frenchsens
  9. Middle Englishsense
  10. Englishsense
  11. English todaysensist

From sense + -ist.

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