SCIENCE

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French science, from Old French science, escience, borrowed from Latin scientia.^[1]

Etymology 1

From Middle English science, scyence, borrowed from Old French science, escience, from Latin scientia (“knowledge”), from sciens, the present participle stem of scire (“to know”).

Etymology 2

Noun

science

1. Obsolete spelling of scion

See scion.