recognize Copy link Outline I. To see likeness or identity.1. nosco, nōvi, nōtum, 32. agnosco, nōvi, nĭtum, 33. cognosco, nōvi, nĭtum, 34. recognosco, 35. noscĭto, 1. r.ing by the face, facie noscitans, Liv. 22, 6II. To acknowledge1. nosco, 32. conservo, 13. accĭpio, cēpi, ceptum, 3 (to accept, admit) • recognize: I. To see likeness or identity. 1. nosco, nōvi, nōtum, 3: I r. the hair ... of the Roman king, nosco crines ... regis Romani, Virg. Aen. 6, 810: you might r. me in the double likeness, noscere me duplici posses in imagine, Ov. Fast. 1, 231. 2. agnosco, nōvi, nĭtum, 3: such darkness that no man could r. another, tantas tenebras, ut nemo hominem homo agnosceret, Cic. N. D. 2, 38, 96: you r. God from his works, Deum agnoscis ex operibus ejus, id. Tusc. 1, 29, 70. 3. cognosco, nōvi, nĭtum, 3: what, I not r. your voice? quid, ego non cognosco vocem tuam? Cic. de Or. 2, 68, 276: that no one might r. me, ne quis me cognosceret, Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 8: a part of the spoil was restored to those who r.d their own property, praedae pars sua cognoscentibus ... reddita, Liv. 4, 29. 4. recognosco, 3: when I thoroughly r.d you, quum te penitus recognovi, Cic. Deiot. 2, 4: to r. by recollection, reminiscendo recognoscere, Cic. Sen. 21, 78. 5. noscĭto, 1. r.ing by the face, facie noscitans, Liv. 22, 6: they r.d by their voices, vocibus noscitabant, Plin. Ep. 6, 20. II. To acknowledge: 1. nosco, 3: that part of the apology I neither r. nor approve, illam partem excusationis nec nosco, nec probo, Cic. Fam. 4, 4: this one source of influence they r., hanc unam gratiam potentiamque noverunt, Caes. B. G. 6, 15. 2. conservo, 1: let the Aetolian race r. the supremacy of the Roman people, imperium ... populi Romani gens Aetolorum conservato, Liv. 38, 11. 3. accĭpio, cēpi, ceptum, 3 (to accept, admit): I r. the signal of recal, accipio revocamen, Ov. Fast. 1, 561.