cognitio

cōgnitiō ōnis, f

com- + GNA-, a becoming acquainted with, acquiring knowledge, knowledge, acquaintance : rerum: animi: urbis: cognitione atque hospitio dignus.— A conception, notion, idea : deorum innatae cognitiones. — In law, a judicial examination, inquiry, cognizance, trial : ipsius cognitio de existimatione: captorum agrorum: vacantium militiae munere, L.: inter patrem et filium, L.: dies cognitionis, the day of trial : centurionum Cognitio de milite, Iu.: tribuni, a decree , Iu.— Recognition, discovery : cognitio facta esse filium natum, T.: de cognitione ut certum sciam, to make sure of the discovery , T.