An english-to-latin translation of the imperative "Learn!" or "Know!"?

Question

I think it's the first above that I'm looking for. An abbreviated version of "Learn from the past."
Thanks

Thanks to all. I thought "disce" meant "to break up" or "go away from." No?

Or might "disce" in this context mean to go away from or depart from the past (through learning)?

And doesn't each answer below suggest a different verb? Why is that?

Answer 1

Learn! ~ Disce!
Know! ~ Nosce! ~ Cognosce! ~ Percipe!

There are quite a few options as you can see. In many cases the words expressing "know" can also be translated as "learn" anyway.

For your phrase, I would suggest ~
Disce a praeteritis ~

also possible would be ~ disce a rebus praeteritis (learn from the things that have gone before)

Answer 2

Disce just means learn, it has no sense of going away from or breaking up. Ab means away (as seen in the words absent and abdicate). I think maybe you were taking dis as a prefix, as you see in the word discord or dismiss. But it isn't.

There is a Latin word discedo which means to separate, depart, go away, but it is not related to disco.

You wondered about all the different verbs - many Latin verbs often have slightly different connotations, yet are closely related, as they are in English. Take the words understand, comprehend, and know. They can all be used interchangeably in the sentence "I ___ that." The other verbs given were variants of capio, to take. "To take in" can be extended to mean understand, grasp, learn. They are only secondary meanings, though. Disce is the best word, as its primary meaning is learn.

Answer 3

Learn = percipio

Know = teneo

Learn from the past = Perceptum ex preteritus

Cheers

Answer 4

You can do a google search for english to latin translations and find what you need, but here are the two you asked for:
1- Learn, accipio-cipere-cepi-ceptum
2- know or knowledge, agnito-onis