A person with expert knowledge or discriminating taste in art, music, or culture; a connoisseur.
From Italian 'conoscente,' derived from Latin 'cognoscere' (to know), via Italian usage meaning 'one who knows.' The term entered English from Italian art circles in the 17th-18th centuries.
This is the Italian spelling of what we now call a 'connoisseur'—the word traveled from Italy to English with art dealers and collectors during the Renaissance, when Italian taste set the standards for Europe.
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