cognoscente

SYLLABICATION:
co搽no新cen暗e
PRONUNCIATION:
AUDIO: kny-shnt, kgn- KEY
NOUN:
Inflected forms: pl. co搽no新cen暗i (-t)
A person with superior, usually specialized knowledge or
highly refined taste; a connoisseur.
ETYMOLOGY:
Obsolete Italian, from Latin cognscns, cognscent-,
present participle of cognscere, to know. See cognition.