• IPA: /ˌɪnkɒɡˈniːtoʊ/, IPA: /ˌɪnˈkɒɡnitoʊ/

incognito (not comparable)

1. without being known; in disguise; in an assumed character, or under an assumed title.
   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal In Bohemia:

     "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, “you can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting you.”

• Portuguese: incógnito
• Russian: инко́гнито

incognito (not comparable)

1. Without revealing one's identity.

• Portuguese: incognitamente
• Russian: инко́гнито

incognito

1. One unknown or in disguise, or under an assumed character or name.
2. The assumption of disguise or of a feigned character; the state of being in disguise or not recognized.
   • 1814 July 6, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. In Three Volumes, volume (please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 270129598 ↗: