Latin

Noun

cognitiō f ‎(genitive cognitiōnis); third declension

1. examination, inquiry, investigation
2. learning, study (acquisition of knowledge)
3. knowledge

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: cognition

See also

• incognito

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cognitio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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)