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別の表記

• reconnoiter (American)
• reconnaitre (古風な用法)
• reconnaître, reconnoître (まれに)

語源

From French reconnoître (廃れた用法 spelling of reconnaître), from Latin recognoscere (“to recognise”). There is also an obsolete 19th-century British English spelling reconnaitre, influenced by the modern French form.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛkəˈnɔɪtə/, [ˌɹʷɛkəˈnɔɪ̯tʰə]
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛkəˈnɔɪtɚ/, [ˌɹˠɛkəˈnɔɪ̯ɾɚ]

動詞

reconnoitre (三人称単数 現在形 reconnoitres, 現在分詞 reconnoitring, 過去形および過去分詞形 reconnoitred)

1. (transitive, intransitive, military) To perform a reconnaissance (of an area; an enemy position); to scout with the aim of gaining information.

   Our scout will reconnoitre the path ahead of our troops.

   • 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 150:

     Not a drop of rain fell; the clouds went portentously off, like ships of war after reconnoitering a strong fort, to return with added strength and fury.

2. (obsolete) To recognise.
   • 1765, Horace Walpole, The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq:

     As to my person, it will not be so easy to reconnoitre it, for I question whether any of it will remain

同意語

• scout, survey

名詞

reconnoitre (複数形 reconnoitres)

1. An act or instance of reconnoitring.

   The pilot reported the findings of his reconnoitre.

関連する語

• recon
• recce
• reconnaissance

アナグラム

• reconnoiter