incognito

Borrowed from Italian incognito, from Latin incognitus (“unknown”), from in- (“not”) + cognitus (“known”), perfect passive participle of cognoscere.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪnˈkɒɡnitoʊ/
• Rhymes: -iːtəʊ

incognito (not comparable)

1. without being known; in disguise; in an assumed character, or under an assumed title.
   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal In Bohemia:

     "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, “you can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting you.”

This term is said especially of great personages who sometimes adopt a disguise or an assumed character in order to avoid notice.

• 'Twas long ago/Since gods come down incognito. —Prior.
• The prince royal of Persia came thither incognito. —Tatler.

incognito (not comparable)

1. Without revealing one's identity.

incognito (countable and uncountable, plural incognitos)

1. One unknown or in disguise, or under an assumed character or name.
2. The assumption of disguise or of a feigned character; the state of being in disguise or not recognized.
   • Sir Walter Scott

     His incognito was endangered.

• cognition

From Italian

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kɔ.ɲi.to/

incognito

1. incognito

incognito (plural incognitos)

1. incognito

incognito m (plural incognitos)

1. incognito

• “incognito” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

incognito (feminine singular incognita, masculine plural incogniti, feminine plural incognite)

1. unknown

incognito m (plural incogniti)

1. incognito

• incognita

incognitō

1. dative masculine singular of incognitus
2. dative neuter singular of incognitus
3. ablative masculine singular of incognitus
4. ablative neuter singular of incognitus