cognitio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti

Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱéti

Proto-Italic *gnōskō

Latin gnōscō

Latin gnōscō

Latin cognōscō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin cognitiō

From cognōscō (“to get to know”) + -tiō (“resultative noun suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔŋˈnɪ.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koɲˈɲit.t͡si.o]

Noun

cognitiō f (genitive cognitiōnis); third declension

1. learning, study (acquisition of knowledge)

   Synonyms: studium, disciplīna

2. knowledge, cognition, cognizance

   Synonyms: scientia, sapientia, ērudītiō

   Antonym: ignōrantia

3. (law) investigation, judicial examination, inquiry, cognizance, trial

   Synonym: causa

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cognitiō	cognitiōnēs
genitive	cognitiōnis	cognitiōnum
dative	cognitiōnī	cognitiōnibus
accusative	cognitiōnem	cognitiōnēs
ablative	cognitiōne	cognitiōnibus
vocative	cognitiō	cognitiōnēs

Related terms

• cognitus
• incognitus

Descendants

• → Catalan: cognició
• → English: cognition
• → French: cognition
• → Galician: cognición
• → German: Kognition
• → Italian: cognizione
• → Occitan: cognicion
• → Portuguese: cognição
• → Spanish: cognición

References

• “cognitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cognitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "cognitio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cognitio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be well-informed, erudite: multarum rerum cognitione imbutum esse (opp. litterarum or eruditionis expertem esse or [rerum] rudem esse)
    
  • to have innate ideas of the Godhead; to believe in the Deity by intuition: insitas (innatas) dei cognitiones habere (N. D. 1. 17. 44)