DictionaryRoot: prudentia
Latin

prudentia

knowledge, foresight

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A small law-school seminar makes the study of law recognizable through classroom staging, comparative reading, and a prominent traditional Lady Justice teaching model, rather than a private legal consultation.
noun

jurisprudence

joor-is-PROOD-ns/ˌdʒʊrɪsˈpruːdns/

The study of law and its underlying principles.

Etymology

Here prudence preserves an older sense of “knowledge” or “science,” rather than simply caution. Combined with law, it names systematic legal knowledge and, more specifically, the philosophy of law.

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