conocer
Spanish
verb
Definitions
- to know (a person or a place), to be familiar with, to be acquainted with
- (in the preterite tense) to meet
- (in the future tense) to get to know, become acquainted (with)
- to see, to visit, to explore i.e., to get to know a place for the first time
- to hear, to know implies hearing for the first time
- to discover, to get to or come to know, to learn about, to find out
- (reflexive) to know, to have known
- (reflexive) to know oneself
Etymology
Inherited from Latin cognōscere, *conōscēre.
Origin
Latin
*conōscēre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- acknow English
- beknow English
- cognosce English
- cognoscible English
- foreknow English
- interknow English
- know English
- know-it-all English
- knowability English
- knowable English
- knowbie English
- knowbot English
- knower English
- knowest English
- knoweth English
- knowsome English
- unknow English
- unknowable English
- whaddayaknow English
- you-know-what English
- you-know-who English
- *connōscere Latin
- *connōscō Latin
- *conōscere Latin
- *conōscēre Latin
- *conōscĕre Latin
- cognosco Latin
- cognōscere Latin
- cognōscō Latin
- praecognosco Latin
- recognosco Latin
- conoscere Italian
- conoscitore Italian
- disconoscere Italian
- sconoscere Italian
- connaître French
- desconocer Spanish, Castilian
- knowen Middle English
- conoistre Old French
- coneixedor Catalan, Valencian
- coneixement Catalan, Valencian
- conèixer Catalan, Valencian
- desconèixer Catalan, Valencian
- cunoaște Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- connocer Old Portuguese
- cunoscu Aromanian
- *gnōskō Proto-Italic
- conocer Asturian
- cognossi Friulian
- conoiser Old Occitan
- conoixer Old Occitan
- conosar Venetian
- cugnussi Istriot
- cunnosce Corsican
- coincer Mirandese
- cgnósar Emilian
- cgnùser Emilian