prescience
‘foreknowledge’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. precience, presciens, prescyence < O.F. prescience < La.Lat. praescientia ‘fore-knowledge’ < praescientem < praescire ‘to know in advance’ < Lat. prae ‘before’ + scire ‘to know’ < O.F. science ‘knowledge, learning, application; corpus of human knowledge’ < Lat. scientia ‘knowledge, a knowing; expertness’ < sciens ‘intelligent, skilled’ < scire ‘to know’ < scindere ‘to cut, divide’ < seeuhn < skei- < Tamil kappu