incognita
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See also: incógnita
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian incognita;[1] see incognito.
Noun
[edit]incognita (plural incognitas)
- A woman who is unknown or in disguise.
- (of a woman) The state of being in disguise. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Adjective
[edit]incognita (not comparable)
- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “incognita, adj. and n.1”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]incognita f (plural incognite)
- (mathematics) unknown (quantity)
- uncertainty
Adjective
[edit]incognita
References
[edit]- ^ incognita in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]incognita
- inflection of incognitus:
Adjective
[edit]incognitā
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