reconnaissance

reconnaissance

English

Alternative forms

• recce (abbreviation)
• recon (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from French reconnaissance (“recognition”). Doublet of recognizance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkɒnəsəns/

• Audio (CA)

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Noun

reconnaissance (countable and uncountable, plural reconnaissances)

1. The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.
   • 1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

     The third member, Sergeant Pieter Rousseau, had been with the back-up teams at the Hub; he was an expert on space reconnaissance instrumentation, but on this trip he would have to depend on his own eyes and a small portable telescope.

Related terms

• reconnoiter, reconnoitre

Translations

act of gathering information

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: اِسْتِطْلَاع‎ m (istiṭlāʿ) Armenian: հետախուզություն (hy) (hetaxuzutʿyun) Azerbaijani: kəşfiyyat Belarusian: разве́дка (be) f (razvjédka), рэкагнасцыро́ўка f (rekahnascyróŭka) Bulgarian: разузна́ване n (razuznávane), рекогносциро́вка f (rekognosciróvka) Chinese: Mandarin: (military) 偵察／侦察 (zh) (zhēnchá), 選點／选点 (xuǎndiǎn) Chukchi: ёпыԓӄэв (jopyḷqėv) Czech: průzkum (cs) m Danish: rekognoscering c Dutch: verkenning (nl) f Esperanto: rekognosko Estonian: luure Finnish: tiedustelu (fi) French: reconnaissance (fr) f Georgian: დაზვერვა (dazverva) German: Aufklärung (de) f, Kundschaft (de) f Greek: αναγνώριση (el) f (anagnórisi) Hebrew: סִיּוּר‎ m (si'úr) Hungarian: felderítés (hu), információszerzés Indonesian: pengintaian (id), penyelidikan (id) Italian: ricognizione (it) f Japanese: 偵察 (ja) (ていさつ, teisatsu) Korean: 정찰(偵察) (jeongchal) Latvian: rekognoscēšana f Lithuanian: žvalgyba f, žvalgymas m Macedonian: извидување n (izviduvanje) Norwegian: Bokmål: rekognosering m or f Nynorsk: rekognosering f Polish: rekonesans (pl) m, zwiad (pl) m Portuguese: reconhecimento (pt) m Romanian: recunoaștere (ro) f, cercetare (ro) f Russian: разве́дка (ru) f (razvédka), рекогносциро́вка (ru) f (rekognosciróvka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: извиђање n, ѝзвидница f Roman: izviđanje n, ìzvidnica (sh) f Slovak: prieskum m Slovene: izvidništvo n Spanish: reconocimiento (es) m Swedish: rekognosering c Thai: การลาดตระเวน (th) (gaan-lâat-dtrà-ween), การสอดแนม (gaan-sɔ̀ɔt-nɛɛm), การสำรวจ (th) (gaan-sǎm-rùuat) Turkish: keşif (tr) Ukrainian: ро́звідка f (rózvidka), розві́дка f (rozvídka), рекогносциро́вка f (rekohnoscyróvka), рекогносцирува́ння n (rekohnoscyruvánnja) Uzbek: razvedka (uz)

Further reading

• reconnaissance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From reconnaiss- (present participle stem of reconnaître, cf. reconnaissant) + -ance. Compare also Medieval Latin recognōscentia (“a recognizing, acknowledgement”), Italian riconoscenza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s/, /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɑ̃s/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

• Homophone: reconnaissances
• Hyphenation: re‧co‧nnai‧ssance

Noun

reconnaissance f (plural reconnaissances)

1. reconnaissance
2. thankfulness

   Synonym: gratitude

3. recognition

Derived terms

• reconnaissance vocale

Further reading

• “reconnaissance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.