Borrowed from Latin consciens, conscientis, present participle.

conscient (comparative more conscient, superlative most conscient)

1. (obsolete) conscious; aware
   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes,[…], →OCLC:

     As we see in Augustus Cæsar, (who was rather diverse from his uncle, than inferior in virtue,) how when he died, he desired his friends about him to give him a plaudite, as if he were conscient to himself that he had played his part well upon the stage.

   • 1893, Charles Letourneau, Sociology Based Upon Ethnography, page 552:

     In a word, the embryology and the taxinomy of the animal kinds, enlightened by the doctrine of transformism, show to us the slow acquisition of conscient life in the animal kingdom.

• sentient

Borrowed from Latin cōnscientem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kun.siˈen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [kon.siˈent]

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conscient m or f (masculine and feminine plural conscients)

1. conscious
2. aware

• “conscient”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsciēns.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sjɑ̃/

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conscient (feminine consciente, masculine plural conscients, feminine plural conscientes)

1. Physically alert; conscious
2. aware of something's implications or consequences

• inconscient

• consciemment
• conscientiser

• conscience

• “conscient”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

cōnscient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of cōnsciō

conscient m or n (feminine singular conscientă, masculine plural conscienți, feminine/neuter plural consciente)

1. obsolete form of conștient

• conscient in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

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