incognita

See also: incógnita

English

Etymology

See incognito.

Noun

incognita (plural incognitas)

1. A woman who is unknown or in disguise.
2. (of a woman) The state of being in disguise. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “incognita”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Adjective

incognita (not comparable)

1. Of a woman: without being known; in an assumed character, or under an assumed title; in disguise; feminine of incognito.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 120:

     Of all places, London is the best for an incognita acquaintance; cards may be exchanged to all eternity without a meeting, and the various circles revolve like planets in their different systems, utterly unconscious of the means and modes of each other's existence.

Related terms

• terra incognita

Anagrams

• actioning

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈkɔɲ.ɲi.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔɲɲita
• Hyphenation: in‧cò‧gni‧ta

Noun

incognita f (plural incognite)

1. (mathematics) unknown (quantity)
2. uncertainty

Adjective

incognita

1. feminine singular of incognito

Anagrams

• cognatini

Latin

Adjective

incognita

1. inflection of incognitus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

incognitā

1. ablative feminine singular of incognitus