From en.wiktionary.org:
[re-cognize]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] Borrowed from [en], from [en], from [en], first attested in the 16th
century. Displaced native [en], compare [de] and [sv]. Latin had rare [la].
**** Alternative forms
- [en]
**** Verb
[en-verb] [en]
1. [en] To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.
2. * [I]
3. * {{ quote-book | en | title=w:Ways of Seeing | author=w:John Berger | chapter=1 | year=1973 | publisher=w:Penguin Books | isbn=
0-14-013515-4|oclc=23135054|text=Seeing comes before words. The child looks
and RECOGNIZES before it can speak.}}
1. [en] To acknowledge the existence or legality of; to treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
2. [en] To acknowledge or consider (as being a certain thing or having a certain quality or property).
3. [en] To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in.
4. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=2013 | month=May-June | author= Katrina G. Claw (see http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/katrina-g-claw)
|title=Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm (see
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2013/3/rapid-evolution-in-eggs-and-sperm)
|volume=101|issue=3|magazine=w:American Scientist |passage=In plants, the
ability to RECOGNIZE self from nonself plays an important role in
fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse
offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}
1. [en] To show formal appreciation of, as with an award, commendation etc.
2. [en] To review ; to examine again.
3. * [en]
4. [en] To reconnoiter .
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1637 | author=w:Robert Monro | title=Monro, His Expedition With the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keys
|passage=before the siege was layd to the Towne, of minde to RECOGNIZE, he
fell unawares amongst an Ambushcade}}
1. [en] To have the property to bind to specific antigens.
***** Derived terms
{{col3 |en|recognizability |recognizable |recognizably |recognizance
|recognizant |recognization |recognizee |recognizer |recognizor }}
***** Related terms
{{col3 |en|recognition |reconnaissance |acknowledge }}
***** Translations
[to match in memory; to know from a previous encounter]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assamese: [as] , [as] [to know]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Irish: [ga]
- Istriot: [ist]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Jarai: [jra]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Mansaka: [msk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Maranao: [mrw]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Old Gujarati: [inc-ogu]
- Old Saxon: [osx]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] [object trigger] , [tl] [actor trigger] , [tl] [object trigger] , [tl] [object trigger]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza]
- Zulu: [zu]
[trans-bottom]
[to acknowledge the existence or legality of]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Norwegian:
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] [object trigger] , [tl] , [tl] [object trigger] , [tl] [actor trigger] , [tl] [object trigger]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[to acknowledge as something]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Zulu: [zu]
[trans-bottom]
[to realize or discover the nature of something]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Persian: [fa]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Walloon: [wa]
[trans-bottom]
[to give an award]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Zulu: [zu]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Ewe: [ee]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Telugu: [te] (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
From [en].
**** Alternative forms
- [en]
**** Verb
[en-verb] [North American and Oxford British spelling]
1. to cognize again
[en]