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sapiens

n. Homo sapiens.

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sapiens

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Homo sapiens

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Sapiens

Sapiens, a Latin word meaning wise, may refer to :

  • Berengarius Sapiens, a designation for Berengar the Wise, the count of Toulouse (814-835) and duke of Septimania (832-835)
  • Felis sapiens (also Felix sapiens), a fictional, sentient, humanoid species from the Red Dwarf television series
  • Gaius Laelius Sapiens (ca. 188 BC-?), a Roman statesman
  • Gildas Sapiens, a designation for Saint Gildas (c. 500–570), a 6th-century British cleric
  • Homo sapiens, the species Latin name of the Human beings
  • Hydro Sapiens, an art performance performed by The Lunatics from The Netherlands
  • Icthyo sapiens is a species designation given to at least two fictional characters:
    • The Mariner, played by Kevin Costner in the sci-fi film Waterworld
    • Abe Sapien, a fictional character in the Hellboy comic book series
  • Robo-Sapiens, the debut album by Malibu
  • Sapiens International Corporation, a computer software company
  • Vipera Sapiens, an EP by Brazilian heavy metal band Viper
  • a designation for Cato the Elder (234 BC–149 BC), a Roman statesman
  • a designation for Cenn Fáelad mac Aillila (died 679), an Irish scholar
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, 2014 book by Yuval Harari
  • Macrobiotus Sapiens, a microorganism commonly known as a water bear.

Usage examples of "sapiens".

Sapientia smiled with the satisfaction of a slow child who has, at long last, won a footrace against its rivals.

Sapientia was helpless to stop them while, all around, nobles and attendants crowded in, eager or aghast to see such a show.

Sapientia reclined on a couch while her attendants fluttered around her and her new physicianon loan from Margrave Judith and newly arrivedtested her pulse by means of pressing two fingers to her skin just under her jawline.

He has the two daughters, Sapientia and Theophanu, who are old enough now to have their own entourages, their own retainers.

Sanglant and his troops spent three weeks following the meandering trail of Prince Bayan and Princess Sapientia as it wound through the marchlands of Ol-satia, Austra, and Eastfall.

Sapientia was sent east with an army together with that of her new husband, Prince Bayan of Ungria.

Sapientia had a habit of preening when Bayan paid lush attention to her.

Somehow, Brother Breschius had gotten hold of one of the silver cups, and when the church was empty except for Bayan, Sapientia, and several of their most loyal servants, he offered it to Bayan.

At ille Graecus (id quod fuit sapientis et praestantis viri) omnibus consulendum esse putavit: eaque est summa ratio et sapientia boni civis, commoda civium non divellere, sed omnes eadem aequitate continere.

On the road from Ebshausen to the palace at Thersa, Sapientia felt her first birth pangs.

She watched as Father Hugh retired discreetly to the back of the hall while Sapientia waited for her camp bed to be set up behind a screen next to her father.

Brigida slept on the other side of Sapientia, lesser ladies by degrees farther away on the other beds and the favored and most noble of the clerics on the remaining camp beds.

Under an awning Princess Sapientia sat in a camp chair, attended by Father Hugh, her favorites, her Eagle, and the servants and wet nurse who took care of baby Hippolyte.

And when Sapientia gives birth to our child, I will be guaranteed the place of her closest adviser for as long as she reigns.

His new hangers-on, uncertain of his temper as always, kept a safe distance although they made an obvious effort to distinguish themselves from those who flocked around Sapientia.