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cognitionis

cognitionis is a Latin form of cognitio, meaning “learning, knowledge; examination, (legal) inquiry”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.64: … ultarum ignoratione sublata et moderatio natura cupiditatum generibusque earum explicatis, et, ut modo docui, cognitionis regula et iudicio ab eadem illa constituto veri a falso distinctio traditur.

Cicero, On Oratory 3.113: Cognitionis autem tres modi, coniectura, definitio et, ut ita dicam, consecutio: nam quid in re sit, coniectura quaeritur …

All forms of cognitio (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.