“known” in Latin

notus: cognitus (brought into experience, διάπυστος): apertus: manifestus: ante pedes positus (that lies clearly before the eyes, as opposed to what is hidden, concealed, δῆλος, ἐπιφανής): compertus: spectatus. perspectus (that one has experienced or known, γνωστός or διάπυστος): contestatus (believed, warranted, virtus, Cic., Flacc., 11, 25): nobilis (known in the world, known among men by fame, service, knowledge): commonly known, omnibus notus; vulgatus; pervulgatus; also with the addition in vulgus or apud omnes (commonly spread abroad, δημόθρους): notus et apud omnes pervulgatus: tritus (worn out, as it were): to make known; i. e., (a) to bring into knowledge, palam facere, in lucem or in medium proferre: aperire: patefacere (to spread abroad the knowledge of a thing): aperire et in lucem proferre: denunciare (to declare, announce, especially war to the people on whom it is to be brought): prodere: memoriae prodere (to make known to posterity). (b) To proclaim, declare publicly [Vid: To PROCLAIM, To PUBLISH]. (c) To make or render famous, nobilitare (persons, places, etc.): in lucem famamque provehere: e tenebris et silentio proferre (of a thing, deed, etc., which makes anybody known; Plin., Ep., 9, 14, both): to make one’s self known; i. e., acquire a name or reputation, famam colligere; gloriam acquirere: to make anything known to anybody, proponere alicui aliquid (e.g., alicujus voluntatem): perferre aliquid alicujus notitiam (to bring to anybody’s knowledge; Plin., Ep. 10, 15): certiorem facere aliquem de re or alicujus rei; also by writing, per litteras (to inform one of anything); by writing, per litteras deferre ad alicui aliquid or ad aliquem; aliquid perscribere: to become known; i. e., (a) to come to be known, palam fieri (to become openly known): percrebrescere (to become known everywhere). (b) To be spread abroad by report, exire in turbam or in vulgus, etc.: to be known, notum: cognitum (etc., the adjectives) esse: to be commonly known, in clarissima luce versari (of persons): he is commonly known to be an honest man, inter omnes eum virum probum esse constat: it is commonly known, omnes sciunt: nemo ignorat: inter omnes constat.

Tried, generally allowed, etc., cognitus: probatus: spectatus (tried, approved): confessus (placed out of doubt, known): a man of known integrity, homo spectatus or probatus: homo virtute cognita: vir spectatae integritatis.

Well-known, omnibus notus (of persons and things); notus et apud omnes pervulgatus (of things); omnibus et lippis notus et tonsoribus (facetē, Hor., Sat., 1, 7, 3, Heind.); omnibus passeribus notus (proverbially, Cic., Fin., 2, 23, in.).