Omphalos wrote:That should be your rapper name. Ol' Nasty Bastard. "ONB."
I wish I knew enough about rap to do one now. Oh well. 
incognito < Lat. incognitus/-a/-um < in- "not" + cognitus, past participle of cognoscere "know" ... therefore meaning "unknown". The form with the final -o, that we use in English, is either masculine or neuter Dative or Ablative, so I figure it's part of a longer phrase, but I can't find any indication of what that might have been at the moment.
Terra is indeed "land" (or "earth"), a feminine noun, hence the feminine adjective incognita. "Unknown Land".
Another thing most kids won't learn or know much about: Latin!
(As I've pointed out before, since the setting of KJA's novel is not our Earth, it makes ZERO SENSE for people to be using Latin phrases. Although he'll probably come up with some bullshit about "translating the archaic language of that world into an equivalent one in ours." Nice, except most people today don't understand enough Latin for that to make sense.
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), but most other European languages have grammatical gender, with many words classified based on their form or some other now obscure criteria. Old English was that way, and German still is. Other languages have cut back on the number of genders. French, for example, now has only two genders, so all the Latin neuters had to be reclassified as either masc. or fem. Swedish (and I assume Norwegian and Danish are the same ... Lundse?) kept its neuter and regrouped the masc. & fem into a "common" gender.
