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recognoscentia

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Forms

recognoscentia f (genitive recognoscentiae); first declension[1][2]

Etymology

It is from Latin recognōscō (“to recognize, acknowledge”), formed in Medieval Latin with the suffix -entia.[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

Du Cange cites it from a charter of the abbey of Saint-Victor in Marseille, for a deed by which someone acknowledges that they owe the thing at issue.[1]

Semantic evolution

Its main sense was a written acknowledgement of a debt,[1] the French reconnaissance.[1] In statutes of the Order of Saint John of 1584 it names the rent rolls that others called papyri terrae.[1] Köbler glosses it more generally as “recognition”.[2]

Timeline

  • 1584 – Statutes of the Order of Saint John use the plural for rent rolls.[1]

Meanings

Noun

  1. (Medieval Latin) A deed acknowledging a debt; an acknowledgement.[1]
  2. (Medieval Latin) A rent roll, a register of dues.[1]
  3. (Medieval Latin) Recognition.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h du Cange, Charles du Fresne, et al. (1883–1887), Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, augmented ed. by Léopold Favre, Niort: L. Favre
  2. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de