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Latin
Etymology
From cōgitō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
cōgitātiō f (genitive cōgitātiōnis); third declension
- thinking, meditation, reflection
- thought
- reasoning
- intention, plan, design
- Synonyms: voluntās, intentiō, propositum, cōnsilium, animus, mēns, spōns
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “cogitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cogitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cogitatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to form an idea of a thing, imagine, conceive: animo, cogitatione aliquid fingere (or simply fingere, but without sibi), informare
- to form a conception of a thing beforehand: animo, cogitatione aliquid praecipere (Off 1. 23. 81)
- to picture to oneself: cogitatione sibi aliquid depingere
- imagination: ingenium, cogitatio
- creatures of the imagination: res cogitatione fictae or depictae
- to grasp a thing mentally: animo, mente, cogitatione aliquid comprehendere, complecti
- to happen to think of..: in eam cogitationem incidere
- an idea strikes me: haec cogitatio subit animum
- to induce a person to think that..: aliquem ad eam cogitationem adducere ut
- to direct one's attention..: cogitationem, animum in aliquid intendere (Acad. 4. 46)
- to give all one's attention to a thing: omnes cogitationes ad aliquid conferre
- to be deep in thought: in cogitatione defixum esse
- to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere)
- ideally, not really: cogitatione, non re
- to induce some one to take a brighter view of things: in meliorem spem, cogitationem aliquem inducere (Off. 2. 15. 53)
- to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: in rem publicam omni cogitatione curaque incumbere (Fam. 10. 1. 2)
- to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas et cogitationes in rem publicam conferre