Other forms: connoisseurs
A connoisseur is an expert judge in matters of taste. A connoisseur of wine.
The expertise is in discrimination rather than knowledge, since a connoisseur can tell things apart. The word keeps its French spelling, which is why so few people write it correctly.
1nounconnoisseurAn expert judge in matters of taste.
“He was a connoisseur of cheap restaurants and proud of it.”
connoisseur is a person.
French connoisseur comes from connoitre, to know, from Latin cognoscere.
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵneh₃-
French
connaisseur
English, today
connoisseur
Built from
Borrowed from French connaisseur. Around 1705–1715, from French connoisseur, from the verb connoître.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA