raison
See also: Raison
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French reson, raison, from Latin rātiō. Compare the borrowed doublet ration.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
raison f (plural raisons)
- reason (cause)
- reason (mental faculties)
- (mathematics) common difference (of an arithmetic series)
- (mathematics) common ratio (of a geometric series)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “raison” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French[edit]
Noun[edit]
raison f (oblique plural raisons, nominative singular raison, nominative plural raisons)
- Alternative form of reson
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- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French countable nouns
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- Old French lemmas
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