# cognitive

Pronunciation: say "KOG-ni-tiv" US /ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.tɪv/, UK /ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tɪv/, AUS /ˈkɔɡ.nɪ.tɪv/

## Adjective

1. Relating to the mental functions concerned with thinking and reasoning, as distinct from the emotional ones.
   - Simple: Related to thinking, reasoning, and understanding, not to feelings.
   - _The therapy targets cognitive distortions rather than the patient's emotional responses._
   - _Researchers measured cognitive performance under stress, separating it from mood effects._
2. Relating to the intellect; intellectual in character.
   - Simple: Connected with thinking, learning, and using the mind.
   - _The university prizes cognitive achievement above athletic prowess._
   - _His cognitive gifts were obvious from an early age._

## Adjective

3. Cognate; recognized as descending from a common origin with another form. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Coming from the same origin or word family as something else.
   - _The older philologists regarded Latin and Greek as cognitive, descended from a shared ancestor._
   - _She argued the two roots were cognitive, traceable to a single proto-form._

## Noun

4. A cognate; a word descended from the same origin as another. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A word that comes from the same origin as another word.
   - _The lexicographer arranged each cognitive next to its sister form in the related tongue._
   - _Two cognitives in the list shared an unmistakable common ancestor._

## Origin

From Medieval Latin cognitīvus, based on Latin cognitus, the past participle of cognōscō ("I get to know"), combined with the adjective suffix -īvus.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/cognitive (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).