cognosco
Italian
Verb
cognosco
Latin
Etymology
From con- (prefix indicating completion) + gnōscō (“to know”). Popular forms included 1) modifications to the prefix as cō- (like cōnīveō, cōnectō) and later unattested con- (like connīveō, connectō), and 2) modifications to the stem, with the vowel /ō/ replaced by /ē/ after -ēscō.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /koɡˈnoːs.koː/, [kɔŋˈnoːs̠koː]
- (Late Latin) IPA(key): /koːˈnoːs.koː/, [koːˈnoːs̠koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koɲˈɲos.ko/, [koɲˈɲɔsko]
Verb
cognōscō (present infinitive cognōscere, perfect active cognōvī, supine cognitum); third conjugation
- I learn, get to know
- Synonyms: agnōscō, inveniō, sentiō, cōnsciō, sapiō, sciō, nōscō, scīscō, intellegō, percipiō, discernō, inveniō, tongeō, cernō, audiō
- Antonyms: ignōrō, nesciō
- ab (or ex) aliqua cognoscere ― to learn from someone
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.21:
- Eodem die ab exploratoribus certior factus hostes sub monte consedisse milia passuum ab ipsius castris octo, qualis esset natura montis et qualis in circuitu ascensus qui cognoscerent misit.
- Having been informed by explorers that the enemy had sat down at the feet of a mount about eight thousand paces away from his camp, he [Julius Caesar] sent men to know what the mount was like and what was its ascent.
- Eodem die ab exploratoribus certior factus hostes sub monte consedisse milia passuum ab ipsius castris octo, qualis esset natura montis et qualis in circuitu ascensus qui cognoscerent misit.
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Ecclesiastes.3.12-13:
- Et cognovi quod non esset melius nisi laetari et facere bene in vita sua.
Omnis enim homo qui comedit et bibit et videt bonum de labore suo: hoc donum Dei est.- And I learned that there's nothing better than to be happy and do good in one's life. Every person who eats and drinks and sees the fruit of work: this is God's gift.
- Et cognovi quod non esset melius nisi laetari et facere bene in vita sua.
- I am acquainted (with someone), I recognize, apprehend
- (in perfect tense) I know, perceive, understand
- Synonyms: comprehendō, dēprehendō, apprehendō, accipiō, concipiō, teneō, apīscor, capiō, complector, excipiō, cōnsequor, exaudiō
- 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Ad Atticum 15.17:
- De consulum ficto timore cognoveram; Sicca enim φιλοστόργως ille quidem sed tumultuosius ad me etiam illam suspicionem pertulit.
- I knew about the consuls' imagined fear; our beloved man Sicca told me of course, even if rather disturbed, about that speculation too.
- De consulum ficto timore cognoveram; Sicca enim φιλοστόργως ille quidem sed tumultuosius ad me etiam illam suspicionem pertulit.
- I have sex with, (biblical) to know
Conjugation
1The verb "nōscō" and its compounds frequently drop the syllables "vi" and "ve" from their perfect, pluperfect and future perfect conjugations.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: cunoscu, cunoashtiri
- Asturian: conocer, coñocer
- Catalan: conèixer
- Corsican: cunnosce
- Friulian: cognossi, cognoši
- Istriot: cugnussi
- Italian: conoscere
- Megleno-Romanian: cunos
- Old French: conoistre
- Old Galician-Portuguese: connocer
- Old Spanish: connoçer
- Spanish: conocer
- Old Occitan: conoixer
- Piedmontese: cognòsse, conòsse
- Romanian: cunoaște, cunoaștere
- Romansch: enconuscher, conuscher, canuscher, canoscher, cugnuoscher
- Sardinian: connòschere, connosci, connòsciri, connòssere
- Sicilian: canùsciri, cunùsciri
- Venetian: conoser, conosar, cognósar
- → English: cognosce
- → Scots: cognosce
References
- “cognosco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cognosco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cognosco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to study Plato: Platonem legere et cognoscere
- to hold an inquiry into a matter: aliquid, causam cognoscere
- to study Plato: Platonem legere et cognoscere
- cognosco in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti
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