Etymology

connaisseur

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Today it means: A specialist of a given field, especially in one of the fine arts or in a matter of taste: a connoisseur. Full definition →

French connaisseur
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromconnaisseur
  2. English todayconnaisseur

Either a borrowing of the French connaisseur (literally “knower, one who knows”) or an updating of the earlier borrowing, connoisseur, to bring it into line with modern French orthography.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.