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Either from earlier *sentientia, from Proto-Italic *sentjentjā, equivalent to sentiens (“feeling, perceiving”) +‎ -ia; or from Proto-Italic *sententjā, a remnant of a PIE root aorist.

sententia f (genitive sententiae); first declension

  1. a way of thinking, view, opinion, judgement or sentence
    Synonyms: mēns, sēnsus
    Coordinate terms: opīniō, arbitrātum, auctōritās, cōgitātiō, exīstimātiō
    meā (quidem) sententiā ― (at least) in my view
    ex animī sententiā ― in my sincere opinion, in all honesty
    ex (meā etc.) sententiā ― to someone's liking
    adversum, praeter animī sententiam ― against someone's liking
    dē suā ūnīus sententiā ― on one's own initiative
  2. a purpose, intention, will (one's thinking in respect to the future)
    Synonyms: cōnsilium, voluntās
  3. (politics) a vote of opinion (expressed in senate in response to an interrogātiō)
    1. the vote of a juryman or of a jury
      Synonym: suffrāgium
      sententiam ferre ― to vote
      in sententiam alicuius īre ― to support someone's opinion or policy
  4. (politics) an authoritative decision, pronouncement, judgement, decree
    Synonyms: dēcrētum, arbitrium, jūdicium, statūtum
  5. a feeling, sense, idea, notion
    Synonym: cōgitātum
    • 55 BCE, Cicero, De Oratore 2.93:
      sententiīsque magis quam verbīs abundantēs
      overflowing with ideas rather than words to express them
    1. the main drift, substance; spirit of a law (as opposed to letter)
  6. a thought expressed in words; a sense, meaning, signification
    Synonym: sēnsus
    1. any terse and pointed observation (esp. moralistic); a maxim, epigram
      Synonyms: praeceptum, adāgium
    2. (grammar) a self-contained group of words, a finished clause, sentence, period
      Synonyms: sēnsus, periodus

First-declension noun.