cognitus

Perfect passive participle of cognōscō (“know, recognise”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoɡ.ni.tus/, [ˈkɔŋnɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoɲ.ɲi.tus/, [ˈkɔɲːit̪us]

cognitus (feminine cognita, neuter cognitum, superlative cognitissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. known (from experience), having been known; recognised, having been recognised; acquainted, having been acquainted

   Synonym: nōtus

   Antonym: incognitus

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.525–526:

     ‘cāra fuit coniūnx, prīmae mihi flōre iuventae
     cognita, nunc ubi sit, quaeritis? ūrna tegit’

     “There had been a dear wife, having been known to me in the flower of early youth. You ask, where is she now? The urn covers [her].”
     (Hyrieus replies to Jupiter’s offer to grant him any wish. See: Hyrieus; Orion (mythology).)

2. noted, acknowledged, having been acknowledged

First/second-declension adjective.

• Franco-Provençal: coindo
• Old French: cointe, coynte, cuente, cuinte, kointe, quaint, quainte, quaynt, queint, queinte, quente, quint, quointe
  • → Middle English: queynte, cwointe, cuinte, cwuinte; quoynte, queinte, quaynt, quaynte, quoynt, queint, coynte, queynt, qwaynte, quaint
    • English: quaint
    • Scots: quent (obsolete)

cognitus m (genitive cognitūs); fourth declension

1. acquaintance (act of getting to know one)

Fourth-declension noun.

• “cognitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cognitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cognitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cognitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have a theoretical knowledge of a thing: ratione, doctrina (opp. usu) aliquid cognitum habere
    
  • we know from experience: usu cognitum habemus
    
  • to be well-informed, erudite: multa cognita, percepta habere, multa didicisse
    
  • without going to law: indicta causa (opp. cognita causa)