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ricognizione

reconnaissance

noun ree-koh-nyee-TSYOH-neh Rare
Travel & Places Movement

Origin: Latin recognitio (recognition), from cognoscere

Also means

survey

Usage Note

Ricognizione has a military sense of scouting or surveying territory (volo di ricognizione, reconnaissance flight). In legal Italian it also means the formal recognition or identification of a document or fact (ricognizione di debito). The -gn- spelling comes from the Latin root cognoscere (to know, recognise).

Examples

"L'elicottero ha effettuato una ricognizione aerea."

Natural Translation

The helicopter carried out an aerial reconnaissance.

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