Surprise! I can’t find an accurate translation in English for a word and, double surprise, couldn’t even find it adopted as in the case of hubris.
The word is scibile, current Italian for ‘all the human knowledge’, from Latin scibile, ‘knowledgeable‘, from scire, knowledge.
The only translation offered for scibile is ‘knowledge’ and I find this quite limitative.
Can anyone suggest a more satisfactory one-word translation?
Scibile
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WordReference.com gives the following for scibile:
Looking up knowledgegive conoscenza (f) as the primary entry along with these words:
Systranet.com also translates scibile as knowledge.
The Library of Alexandria might have contained the sum of all human knowledge in ancient times, but even the Internet still doesn't contain all human knowledge to date; nor does any encyclopedia.
... which indicates to me that it is properly used in the phrase lo scibile umano (umano means human).Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary © 2006 Oxford University Press:
scibile noun, masculine
knowledge;
lo ~ umano the sum of human knowledge
Looking up knowledgegive conoscenza (f) as the primary entry along with these words:
and a list of idioms and phrases.cognizione - conoscenza - cultura - dominio - intendersi - preparazione - sapere - scibile - scienza
Systranet.com also translates scibile as knowledge.
The Library of Alexandria might have contained the sum of all human knowledge in ancient times, but even the Internet still doesn't contain all human knowledge to date; nor does any encyclopedia.
Regards//Larry
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PHILOLOGY.* This word, among the ancients, had a signification which included what .we now call philosophy, literature, the sciences, and the theory of arts, though it excluded their practice.
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This is a close one, but I don't think it goes quite far enough. The original suggestion was for a word that encompasses all human knowledge, not just the philosophical and scientific ones philology covers.PHILOLOGY.* This word, among the ancients, had a signification which included what .we now call philosophy, literature, the sciences, and the theory of arts, though it excluded their practice.
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PHILOLOGY.* This word, among the ancients, had a signification which included what .we now call philosophy, literature, the sciences, and the theory of arts, though it excluded their practice.
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