connaisseur

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von connaisseur im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A specialist of a given field, especially in one of the fine arts or in a matter of taste: a connoisseur

But it needed a connaisseur of Roman law, namely Wolfgang Ernst, Bonn/Cambridge, to remind me that justum facere is the common root of Recht-Fertigung and justification.

Synonyme

connoisseur

Etymologie

() Either a borrowing of the French connaisseur ("a 'knower', one who knows") or an updating of the earlier borrowing, connoisseur, to bring it into line with modern French orthography.