ignorant (adj.) Look up ignorant at Dictionary.comlate 14c., from Old French ignorant (14c.), from Latin ignorantia, from ignorantem (nominative ignorans), present participle of ignorare "not to know, to be unacquainted; mistake, misunderstand; take no notice of, pay no attention to," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + Old Latin gnarus "aware, acquainted with" (cf. Classical Latin noscere "to know," notus "known"), from Proto-Latin suffixed form *gno-ro-, related to gnoscere "to know" (see know).
Printed copy · Anthology Volume 9, page 1199Printed copy from The Tender For Law Anthology, Volume 9, page 1199 (printed 13 June 2014). Added by this site; not part of the Facebook export.