Ang kahulugan ng diksyunaryo ng salitang "sapient" ay pagkakaroon o pagpapakita ng mahusay na karunungan o tamang paghuhusga; matalino. Maaari rin itong tumukoy sa isang miyembro ng Homo sapiens species, na kinabibilangan ng mga modernong tao.
The king my father, who was called Tinacrio the Sapient, was very learned in what they call magic arts, and became aware by his craft that my mother, who was called Queen Jaramilla, was to die before he did, and that soon after he too was to depart this life, and I was to be left an orphan without father or mother.
