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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
cognitor m (genitive cognitōris); third declension
- advocate, attorney
- witness (to the identity of a person)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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