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cognitio
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Latin
Etymology
From cognōscō (“to get to know”) + -tiō (“resultative noun suffix”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔŋˈnɪ.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koɲˈɲit̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Noun
cognitiō f (genitive cognitiōnis); third declension
- learning, study (acquisition of knowledge)
- Synonyms: studium, disciplīna
- knowledge, cognition, cognizance
- Synonyms: scientia, sapientia, ērudītiō
- Antonym: ignōrantia
- (law) investigation, judicial examination, inquiry, cognizance, trial
- Synonym: causa
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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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’s 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, 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)
- to be well-informed, erudite: multarum rerum cognitione imbutum esse (opp. litterarum or eruditionis expertem esse or [rerum] rudem esse)
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