"to recognize" in seven languages

Meaningto recognize

Spanish

reconocer

/rekonoˈθeɾ/

inherited

French

reconnaître

/ʁəkɔnɛtʁ/

inherited

Italian

riconoscere

/rikoˈnoʃʃere/

inherited

Portuguese

reconhecer

/hekoɲeˈseh/

inherited

Romanian

recunoaște

/rekuˈno̯aʃte/

other source · Romanian re- + cunoaște 'to know' (inherited from COGNŌSCERE)

Catalan

reconèixer

/rəkuˈnɛʃə/

inherited

English

recognize

/ˈɹɛkəɡnaɪz/

from Latin/French · Old French reconoistre

English → Italianto recognizericonoscereCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

RECOGNŌSCERE‘to know again, recall’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

RE- 'again' + COGNŌSCERE 'to get to know'. The French circumflex marks a lost s: Old French reconoistre.

English relatives: recognition, cognitive, incognito