cogitate

English

Etymology

First attested in 1570; borrowed from Latin cōgitātus, perfect passive participle of cōgitō (“to think”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kōʹjĭtāt, IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊdʒɪteɪt/, /ˈkɒdʒɪteɪt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊd͡ʒɪteɪt/, /ˈkɑd͡ʒɪteɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

cogitate (third-person singular simple present cogitates, present participle cogitating, simple past and past participle cogitated)

1. (intransitive) To meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.
   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:

     He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth.

   • 1953, Robert Wright, George Forrest, Kismet:

     Think, ladies! Cogitate! Sharpen up the edges of your wit.

   • 2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 1, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York: Avery, →ISBN, page 37:

     As a theoretical physicist, Dirac didn’t need a lab to do his work; all he needed was a pencil, because his most finely calibrated instrument was his mind’s eye. When he was young, a teacher told him that she felt he was cogitating not in words but in “another medium of forms and figures.” He once described his own thoughts as essentially “geometrical.”

2. (transitive) To consider, to devise.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ponder

Derived terms

• cogitatingly
• cogitator
• uncogitated
• uncogitating

Related terms

• cogibundity
• cogitation
• metacogitate

Translations

to meditate, to ponder, to think deeply

• Bulgarian: размислям (bg) (razmisljam), размишлявам (bg) (razmišljavam)
• Finnish: harkita (fi), miettiä (fi)
• Norwegian: fundere
• Portuguese: cogitar (pt)
• Quechua: hamut'ay
• Russian: обду́мывать (ru) (obdúmyvatʹ), размышля́ть (ru) (razmyšljátʹ)
• Spanish: cogitar (es)
• Tagalog: isaisip

to consider, to devise

• Bulgarian: разглеждам (bg) (razgleždam), обмислям (bg) (obmisljam)
• Finnish: harkita (fi)

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• French: cogiter (fr)

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

cogitate

1. inflection of cogitare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

cogitate f pl

1. feminine plural of cogitato

Latin

Verb

cōgitāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cōgitō

Participle

cōgitāte

1. vocative masculine singular of cōgitātus

References

• “cogitate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cogitate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cogitate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

cogitate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of cogitar combined with te