reconnaissance

Contents

English

Alternative forms

• recce (abbreviation)
• recon (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from French reconnaissance (“recognition”).

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

• Chinese:

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

• Chukchi: ёпыԓӄэв (jopyḷqėv)
• Dutch: verkenning (nl) f
• 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: סיור‎‎ (si'ûr)

• Hungarian: felderítés (hu)
• Indonesian: pengintaian (id), penyelidikan (id)
• Italian: ricognizione (it) f
• Japanese: 偵察 (ja) (ていさつ, teisatsu)
• Lithuanian: žvalgyba f, žvalgymas m
• Polish: rekonesans (pl) m, zwiad m
• Portuguese: reconhecimento (pt) m
• Romanian: recunoaștere (ro) f, cercetare (ro) f
• Russian: разве́дка (ru) f (razvédka), рекогносциро́вка (ru) f (rekognosciróvka)
• Spanish: reconocimiento (es) m

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• Ukrainian: (noun) ^{(please verify)} пласт m (plast), ^{(please verify)} пластування n (plastuvannja), (adjective) ^{(please verify)} пластовий m (plastovyj), ^{(please verify)} пластова f (plastova), ^{(please verify)} пластове n (plastove)
• Ukrainian: (noun) ^{(please verify)} рекогносцировка f (rekohnoscyrovka), (adjective) ^{(please verify)} рекогносцировальний m (rekohnoscyroval’nyj), ^{(please verify)} рекогносцировальна f (rekohnoscyroval’na), ^{(please verify)} рекогносцировальне n (rekohnoscyroval’ne)

• Ukrainian: (noun) ^{(please verify)} розвідка f (rozvidka), (adjective) ^{(please verify)} розвідувальний m (rozviduval’nyj), ^{(please verify)} розвідувальна f (rozviduval’na), ^{(please verify)} розвідувальне n (rozviduval’ne)

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/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

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

Noun

reconnaissance f (plural reconnaissances)

1. reconnaissance
2. thankfulness
3. recognition

Synonyms

• (thankfulness): gratitude

Further reading

• “reconnaissance” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).