Word origins: senses

Ok, this is not actually about the word origins of the word “senses.”

Hebrews 5:14. NASB95
14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

The Greek word translated “senses” is “aistheterion.” It is only used once in the New Testament. It can be literally translated as “organ of perception.” “The New Thayers Greek-English Lexicon” says that the word is used in Plato and Aristotle to mean the “faculty of the mind for perceiving, understanding, and judging.”

The root of the Greek word moves into English as “aesthetics” (philosophy: the study of the mind and emotions in relationship to the sense of beauty) and its related words.