The story
- Latin · derived fromrecognoscere“to recognize”
- French · derived fromreconnoître
- English todayreconnoiter
From French reconnoître (obsolete spelling of reconnaître), from Latin recognoscere (“to recognize”). Contrarily, there is also an obsolete 19th-century British English spelling reconnaitre (now reconnoitre).
Words from the same roots
Frenchreconnoître all →
Latinrecognoscere all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.