COGNOVERANT, cognoverant
Sounds Like: kog-NOH-weh-rant
Translations: they had known, they had learned, they had recognized
From the root: COGNOSCO
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: COGNOVERANT is a Latin verb meaning 'they had known' or 'they had learned'. It is the third person plural, pluperfect active indicative form of the verb COGNOSCO. This form describes an action that was completed before another past action, indicating prior knowledge or acquisition of information.
Inflection: Third Person, Plural, Pluperfect, Active, Indicative
Instances
Polycarp of Smyrna
- Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians — 11:3
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, COGNOSCO.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- COGNOSCO — know, learn, recognize, perceive, understand, to know, to learn, to recognize, to perceive, to understand
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