cognitus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of cognōscō (“know, recognise”).
Participle
cognitus (feminine cognita, neuter cognitum, superlative cognitissimus); first/second-declension participle
- known (from experience), recognised, having been recognised
- noted, acknowledged, having been acknowledged
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | cognitus | cognita | cognitum | cognitī | cognitae | cognita | |
| Genitive | cognitī | cognitae | cognitī | cognitōrum | cognitārum | cognitōrum | |
| Dative | cognitō | cognitō | cognitīs | ||||
| Accusative | cognitum | cognitam | cognitum | cognitōs | cognitās | cognita | |
| Ablative | cognitō | cognitā | cognitō | cognitīs | |||
| Vocative | cognite | cognita | cognitum | cognitī | cognitae | cognita | |
Descendants
- Old French: cointe, coynte, cuente, cuinte, kointe, quaint, quainte, quaynt, queint, queinte, quente, quint, quointe
Noun
cognitus m (genitive cognitūs); fourth declension
- acquaintance (act of getting to know one)
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cognitus | cognitūs |
| Genitive | cognitūs | cognituum |
| Dative | cognituī | cognitibus |
| Accusative | cognitum | cognitūs |
| Ablative | cognitū | cognitibus |
| Vocative | cognitus | cognitūs |
References
- “cognitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cognitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cognitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cognitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have a theoretical knowledge of a thing: ratione, doctrina (opp. usu) aliquid cognitum habere
- we know from experience: usu cognitum habemus
- to be well-informed, erudite: multa cognita, percepta habere, multa didicisse
- without going to law: indicta causa (opp. cognita causa)
- to have a theoretical knowledge of a thing: ratione, doctrina (opp. usu) aliquid cognitum habere