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The cognoscenti are the people who really know a subject from the inside — especially art, books, wine, or food. They are not just fans; they have trained taste and they talk to each other in a small in-group. English borrowed the word from Italian and almost always keeps the Italian plural: we say the cognoscenti. The singular cognoscente exists, but English writers rarely use it. The word can be respectful, but it often comes with a little smile, as if these people think they know better than everyone else. It is a fancy, slightly showing-off word. In plain talk you would say experts, or people who really know. You would not use it for every skilled person: a good is an expert, not “the cognoscenti”.
行家、鑑賞家（講美食時台灣常說老饕）
組成Borrowed from Italian cognoscente, “a person who knows”, from Latin cognōscere, “to know, to become aware of”. The -i is the Italian plural ending; English kept that shape.
同家族的字
- cognoscentethe Italian singular of the same word; rare in English
- cognizantsame Latin knowing root; being aware of something
- cognitionsame Latin root; the mind’s act of knowing
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。