Etymology

agnize

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Today it means: To recognise; to acknowledge. Full definition →

Latin agnōscō ← Proto-Italic *ad- ← Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  2. Proto-Italic*ad
  3. Proto-Italic*ad-
  4. Latinad-
  5. Latingnōscō
  6. Latinnōscō
  7. Latinagnōscō
  8. English todayagnize

Borrowed from Latin agnōscō.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.