reconnaissance

English

Alternative forms

• recce (abbreviation)
• recon (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from French reconnaissance (“recognition”). Doublet of recognizance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkɒnəsəns/

• Audio (CA)

  (file)

Noun

reconnaissance (countable and uncountable, plural reconnaissances)

1. The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.
   • 1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

     The third member, Sergeant Pieter Rousseau, had been with the back-up teams at the Hub; he was an expert on space reconnaissance instrumentation, but on this trip he would have to depend on his own eyes and a small portable telescope.

Related terms

• reconnoiter, reconnoitre

Translations

act of gathering information

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: اِسْتِطْلَاع‎ m (istiṭlāʿ)
• Armenian: հետախուզություն (hy) (hetaxuzutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: kəşfiyyat
• Belarusian: разве́дка (be) f (razvjédka), рэкагнасцыро́ўка f (rekahnascyróŭka)
• Bulgarian: разузна́ване n (razuznávane), рекогносциро́вка f (rekognosciróvka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (military) 偵察 (zh), 侦察 (zh) (zhēnchá), 選點, 选点 (xuǎndiǎn)

• Chukchi: ёпыԓӄэв (jopyḷqėv)
• Czech: průzkum (cs) m
• Danish: rekognoscering c
• Dutch: verkenning (nl) f
• Esperanto: rekognosko
• Estonian: luure
• Finnish: tiedustelu (fi)
• French: reconnaissance (fr) f
• Georgian: დაზვერვა (dazverva)
• German: Aufklärung (de) f, Kundschaft (de) f
• Greek: αναγνώριση (el) f (anagnórisi)
• Hebrew: סִיּוּר‎ m (si'úr)
• Hungarian: felderítés (hu), információszerzés
• Indonesian: pengintaian (id), penyelidikan (id)

• Italian: ricognizione (it) f
• Japanese: 偵察 (ja) (ていさつ, teisatsu)
• Korean: 정찰(偵察) (jeongchal)
• Latvian: rekognoscēšana f
• Lithuanian: žvalgyba f, žvalgymas m
• Macedonian: извидување n (izviduvanje)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rekognosering m or f

  Nynorsk: rekognosering f

• Polish: rekonesans (pl) m, zwiad (pl) m
• Portuguese: reconhecimento (pt) m
• Romanian: recunoaștere (ro) f, cercetare (ro) f
• Russian: разве́дка (ru) f (razvédka), рекогносциро́вка (ru) f (rekognosciróvka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: извиђање n, ѝзвидница f

  Roman: izviđanje n, ìzvidnica (sh) f

• Slovak: prieskum m
• Slovene: izvidništvo n
• Spanish: reconocimiento (es) m
• Swedish: rekognosering c
• Turkish: keşif (tr)
• Ukrainian: ро́звідка f (rózvidka), розві́дка f (rozvídka), рекогносциро́вка f (rekohnoscyróvka), рекогносцирува́ння n (rekohnoscyruvánnja)
• Uzbek: razvedka (uz)

Further reading

• reconnaissance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From reconnaiss- (present participle stem of reconnaître, cf. reconnaissant) + -ance. Compare also Medieval Latin recognōscentia (“a recognizing, acknowledgement”), Italian riconoscenza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s/, /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɑ̃s/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

• Homophone: reconnaissances
• Hyphenation: re‧co‧nnai‧ssance

Noun

reconnaissance f (plural reconnaissances)

1. reconnaissance
2. thankfulness

   Synonym: gratitude

3. recognition

Derived terms

• reconnaissance vocale

Further reading

• “reconnaissance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.