Etymology

cognosce

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Today it means: To determine a person to be insane or mentally incompetent. Full definition →

Latin cognosco
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromcognosco
  2. English todaycognosce

Learned borrowing from Latin cognosco.

Words from the same roots

Latincognosco all →

acquaintcognizancecognoscitive

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