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English
Etymology
From Latin.
Noun
ratiocinatio (uncountable)
- (rhetoric) Reasoning (typically with oneself) by asking questions.
- (rhetoric) Making statements, then asking the reason for such an affirmation, then answering oneself.
See also
Latin
Etymology
ratiōcinor + -tiō
Noun
ratiōcinātiō f (genitive ratiōcinātiōnis); third declension
- reasoning, ratiocination
c. 80 BCE – 15 BCE,
Vitruvius,
De Architectura 1.1:
- opera ea nāscitur ex fabricā et ratiōcinātiōne.
- That service arises from practiced skill and from reasoning.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “ratiocinatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ratiocinatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ratiocinatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the syllogism; reasoning: ratiocinatio, ratio