connaissance
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French conoissance, from Late Latin cognōscentia, from Latin cognōscēns.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s/ ~ /kɔ.ne.sɑ̃s/
Audio; “une connaissance”: (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑ̃s
Noun
[edit]connaissance f (plural connaissances)
- knowledge
- avoir une bonne connaissance des animaux ― to have a good knowledge of animals
- 1903, Maurice Pillard Verneuil, Étude de la plante[1], page 1:
- Ils avaient, en un mot, la connaissance et le respect des deux lois qui président à toute bonne conception ornementale : l'étude approfondie du principe qui fournit le motif, et celle de la technique du métier qui devra réaliser celui-ci.
- In a word, they possessed a knowledge of—and respect for—the two laws that govern all sound ornamental design: the thorough study of the principle that yields the motif, and that of the craft technique required to execute it.
- (countable, uncountable) acquaintance
- une connaissance ― an acquaintance
- faire la connaissance de quelqu'un ― to become acquainted with someone, to get to know someone
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Haitian Creole: konesans
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “connaissance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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