cognitor

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkoɡ.ni.tor/, [ˈkɔŋnɪt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoɲ.ɲi.tor/, [ˈkɔɲːit̪or]

Noun

cognitor m (genitive cognitōris); third declension

1. advocate, attorney
2. witness (to the identity of a person)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cognitor	cognitōrēs
genitive	cognitōris	cognitōrum
dative	cognitōrī	cognitōribus
accusative	cognitōrem	cognitōrēs
ablative	cognitōre	cognitōribus
vocative	cognitor	cognitōrēs

References

• “cognitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cognitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cognitor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cognitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cognitor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cognitor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin