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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2006-08-29 07:11 am

cognoscente

cognoscente (pl. cognoscenti) - n., a person with expert or specialized knowledge in a field, a connoisseur.


"One who knows." Via Italian, from Latin cognoscere, to know -- the same as connisseur, except that one came via French.

---L.