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scire
Latin · ancient
"to know"
to know
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scientia
Latin · ancient
"knowledge"
knowledge, from scire (to know)
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science
Old French · medieval
"organized knowledge"
carried into French for organized knowledge
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science
English · 1300s
"the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the natural world"
settled as the English word for the systematic study of the natural world
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