“knowledge” in Latin

cognitio (the act of the mind by which knowledge is acquired): scientia (a thorough knowledge, the result of mental activity): notitia (the state of being acquainted with, whether the knowledge has been actively acquired or passively received). We also find scientia rerum; also, cognitiones (but never scientiae) rerum. (The words are found in this connection and order.) cognitio et scientia: perceptio (apprehension of anything). (The words are found in this connection and order.) cognitio et perceptio: knowledge of anything, scientia, or cognitio, or prudentia alicujus rei: notitia alicujus rei: intelligentia alicujus rei. (The words are found in this connection and order.) cognitio et intelligentia: notio alicujus rei (the notion one has of anything; , e.g., notitia or notio Dei): prudentia alicujus rei (the clear insight into a thing): expleta rerum comprehensio (certain knowledge): memoria praeteritorum (knowledge of past events or things). To have a knowledge of anything, notitiam alicujus rei habere or tenere; alicujus rei scientiam or prudentiam habere; intelligere aliquid: the objects of our knowledge, eae res, quae sciuntur: our knowledge is never absolutely certain, certo sciri nihil potest: without my knowledge, me inscio: without my knowledge and against my will, me inscio et invito: with a full knowledge of what he was about, sciens ac prudens: anything comes to anybody’s, notum fit alicui aliquid; aliquis certior fit alicujus rei or de re: the limited nature of human knowledge, angusti hominum sensus: to attain to better knowledge, *meliora or veriora cognoscere, perspicere: to bring anything to anybody’s knowledge, aliquid in notitiam alicujus perferre (in a formal or official style of writing; Vid: Plin., Ep., 10, 27 and 32): aliquem certiorem facere alicujus rei (to inform, apprise): docere aliquem aliquid or de aliqua re (to teach, to show) theoretical knowledge of anything, ratio alicujus rei (e.g., of politics, ratio civīlis; of rhetoric, ratio dicendi): “general knowledge” is expressed in Latin by cognitio, scientia, with and without rerum; cognitiones (☞ but never scientiae) rerum; cognitio et scientia: general knowledge of anything, scientia or cognitio, or prudentia alicujus rei: practical general knowledge, usus alicujus rei: scientific or litterary knowledge, doctrīna, eruditio (learning; Vid: LEARNING): disciplīna (acquired by instruction): studia, -orum (the studies which one pursues): litterae: artes (the sciences, fine arts with which one occupies himself); also, litterarum scientia (general term): deeper scientific or litterary knowledge, interiores et reconditae litterae; artes reconditae: to possess a knowledge of anything, notitiam alicujus rei habere or tenere: alicujus rei scientiam or prudentiam habere; intelligere aliquid (to have an accurate knowledge of anything; e.g., multas linguas intelligere): scire aliquid (to know): instructum esse aliqua re and a aliqua re; doctum or eruditum esse aliqua re; alicujus rei non ignarum esse (to be instructed in anything): perītum esse alicujus rei (to be experienced in anything): to be superior to anybody in one’s knowledge of anything, melius scire de re (e.g., de legibus instituendis): to have exact knowledge in anything, aliquid penitus nosse (☞ but not habitare in aliqua re): to have no knowledge of or in anything, aliquid nescire; aliquid ignorare; alicujus rei ignarum esse: to have only a superficial knowledge of or in anything, primoribus labris or leviter attigisse aliquid; primis labris gustasse aliquid: to have not even a superficial knowledge of anything, aliqua re ne imbutum quidem esse: to have not an accurate, but only a superficial knowledge of anything, aliqua re se non perfudisse, sed infecisse (Sen., Ep., 110, 8).