agnitio

Latin

Etymology

From agnoscō (“to understand, recognize, know, perceive”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aɡˈni.ti.oː/, [äŋˈnɪt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aɲˈɲit.t͡si.o/, [äɲˈɲit̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

agnitiō f (genitive agnitiōnis); third declension

1. recognition, acknowledgement, admission, acceptance
2. knowing, perceiving

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	agnitiō	agnitiōnēs
Genitive	agnitiōnis	agnitiōnum
Dative	agnitiōnī	agnitiōnibus
Accusative	agnitiōnem	agnitiōnēs
Ablative	agnitiōne	agnitiōnibus
Vocative	agnitiō	agnitiōnēs

Related terms

• agnitiōnālis
• agnitor
• agnoscō

Descendants

• English: agnition
• → Italian: agnizione (learned)
• Portuguese: agnição

References

• “agnitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “agnitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• agnitio 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)
• agnitio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.