'Sense' is Latin for 'perception' — from PIE *sent- (to feel one's way). Movement meets awareness.
A faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch); a feeling that something is the case; sound practical judgment; a meaning of a word or expression; (verb) to perceive or detect.
From Old French 'sens' (sensation, feeling, understanding, meaning, direction), from Latin 'sēnsus' (perception, feeling, consciousness, sense, meaning), the past participial noun of 'sentīre' (to feel, to perceive by the senses, to be aware, to think). The PIE root is *sent- (to head for, to go, to feel one's way toward something) — an ancient connection between physical movement and perception: to sense was originally to feel your way along a path. The same root gives Latin 'sententia' (a way of thinking, an opinion, a
The PIE root *sent- originally meant 'to go, to head in a direction' — to feel one's way along a path. This is why 'sense' and 'sentence' are related: a sentence is a path of thought felt through to completion. The same root produced Old English 'sinþ' (a going, a journey) and German 'Sinn' (sense, meaning) — connecting the ideas of traveling, finding