connaître
French
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to know (of), to be familiar with a person, place, fact, event
- (transitive) to know, to experience glory, hunger, problems etc.
- (transitive) to know (sexually)
- (pronominal) to be knowledgeable (en (en) about)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French conoistre (know, recognize) inherited from Latin cognōscere, *connōscere.
Origin
Latin
*connōscere
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- acknow English
- beknow 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
- *connoscere Latin
- *connōscere Latin
- *conōscere Latin
- *conōscēre Latin
- *conōscĕre Latin
- cognoscere Latin
- cognōscere Latin
- conoscere Italian
- conoscitore Italian
- disconoscere Italian
- sconoscere Italian
- connaisseur French
- conocer Spanish, Castilian
- knowen Middle English
- conoistre Old French
- mesconoistre Old French
- coneixedor Catalan, Valencian
- coneixement Catalan, Valencian
- conèixer Catalan, Valencian
- desconèixer Catalan, Valencian
- cunoaște Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- konocar Ido
- konoceskar Ido
- konocigar Ido
- miskonocar Ido
- rikonocar Ido
- connaître Norman
- descongnoistre Middle French
- mescongnoistre Middle French
- connocer Old Portuguese
- conéisher Occitan
- conéisser Occitan
- conóisser Occitan
- *gnōskō Proto-Italic
- conocer Asturian
- cognossi Friulian
- conoixer Old Occitan
- conosar Venetian
- konn Haitian, Haitian Creole
- konnen Haitian, Haitian Creole
- quenoître Bourguignon
- cugnussi Istriot
- cunnosce Corsican
- connin Louisiana Creole French
- connoéte Picard