cognitive

From Medieval Latin cognitīvus, from Latin cognitus, perfect passive participle of cognōscō (“I get to know”) + -īvus (adjective suffix).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tɪv/
• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.tɪv/, [ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.ɾɪv]

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• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tɪv/, [ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.ɾɪv]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɡ.nɪ.tɪv/, [ˈkɔɡ.nɪ.ɾɪv]

cognitive (comparative more cognitive, superlative most cognitive)

1. Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.
   • 2013 July 9, Joselle DiNunzio Kehoe, “Cognition, brains and Riemann”, in plus.maths.org‎^[1], retrieved 8 September 2013:

     Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience are also beginning to unravel how the body perceives magnitudes through sensory-motor systems. Variations in size, speed, quantity and duration, are registered in the brain by electro-chemical changes in neurons. The neurons that respond to these different magnitudes share a common neural network. In a survey of this research, cognitive neuroscientists Domenica Bueti and Vincent Walsh tell us that the brain does not treat temporal perception, spatial perception and perceived quantity as different.

2. Intellectual.
3. (linguistics, rare, obsolete) Cognate; to be recognized as cognate.
   • 1903, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia:

     Wanux "white man," cognitive with Aben. awanoch, now used for "Canadian Frenchman";

• ⇒ Polish: kognitywny

cognitive (plural cognitives)

1. (linguistics, rare, obsolete) A cognate.
   • 1902, American Anthropologist:

     Abenaki awanoch, the cognitive of Penobscot awenoch, means Frenchman,

• affective
• motor

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ɲi.tiv/, /kɔɡ.ni.tiv/

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• Homophone: cognitives

cognitive

1. feminine singular of cognitif

• IPA^(key): /koɲ.ɲiˈti.ve/
• Rhymes: -ive
• Hyphenation: co‧gni‧tì‧ve

cognitive

1. feminine plural of cognitivo