cognitio
Latin
Etymology
From cognōscō (“to get to know”) + -tiō (“resultative noun suffix”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /koɡˈni.ti.oː/, [kɔŋˈnɪt̪ioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koɲˈɲit.t͡si.o/, [koɲˈɲit̪ː͡s̪io]
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.
Case | 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
- → 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’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)