ratio

See also: Ratio

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ratio. Doublet of ration and reason.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/, /ˈɹeɪ.ʃiˌoʊ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪ.ʃi.əʊ/, /ˈɹeɪ.ʃəʊ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

ratio (plural ratios)

1. A number representing a comparison between two named things.
2. (arithmetic) The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient).
3. (law) Short for ratio decidendi.
4. (social media) The amount of comments to a post or other expression on social media relative to the number of likes.

   There is no ratio but the ratio, and it seems like everybody on social media is its prophet.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• aspect ratio
• error ratio
• failure ratio

• financial ratio
• gear ratio
• gender ratio

• golden ratio
• lift-to-drag ratio
• sex ratio

Related terms

• obiter
• obiter dictum
• ratio decidendi

Translations

number representing comparison

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: poměr (cs) m
• Esperanto: proporcio
• Finnish: suhde (fi), suhdeluku (fi)
• French: rapport m (1), ratio (fr) m
• Greek: λόγος (el) m (lógos)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: अनुपात (hi) m (anupāt)
• Hungarian: arány (hu)
• Icelandic: hlutfallstala f, hlutfall n, hlutfall milli tveggja stærða n
• Italian: ragione (it) f, rapporto (it) m
• Japanese: 比 (ja) (hi)
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• Malay: nisbah
• Malayalam: അനുപാതം (ml) (anupātaṁ)
• Maori: ōwehenga
• Norwegian: forhold (no) n
• Polish: współczynnik (pl) m, stosunek (pl) m
• Portuguese: razão (pt) f
• Russian: отноше́ние (ru) n (otnošénije), соотноше́ние (ru) n (sootnošénije)
• Spanish: razón (es) f, cociente (es) m, relación (es) f, ratio (es) f
• Swahili: uwiano (sw)
• Swedish: förhållande (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagway
• Telugu: నిష్పత్తి (te) (niṣpatti)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

arithmetics: relative magnitude of two quantities expressed as quotient

• Esperanto: proporcio
• Finnish: suhde (fi), suhdeluku (fi)
• French: rapport (fr) m
• German: Verhältnis (de) n
• Greek: λόγος (el) m (lógos)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: arány (hu)
• Polish: stosunek (pl) m
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• Russian: коэффицие́нт (ru) m (koefficiént)
• Spanish: relación (es) f
• Swedish: förhållande (sv) n, proportion (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagway
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: oran (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

ratio decidendi — see ratio decidendi

Verb

ratio (third-person singular simple present ratios, present participle ratioing, simple past and past participle ratioed)

1. (transitive, social media) to respond to a post or message on social media in a greater number than the amount of likes the post receives

   The schoolchildren ganged up to ratio the school catering over its shamefully undemocratic inclusion of vegetables in meals.

Anagrams

• Artio, ariot, artoi, atrio-, iatro-

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ratiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraː.(t)si.oː/
• Hyphenation: ra‧tio

Noun

ratio f (plural ratio's)

1. (mathematics, countable) ratio, proportion

   Synonym: verhouding

2. (uncountable) reason

   Synonyms: rede, verstand

Related terms

• rationalisme
• rationeel

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ratio. Doublet of raison and ration.

Noun

ratio m (plural ratios)

1. (mathematics) ratio

Further reading

• “ratio”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ratiō (“reason, explanation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrat.t͡sjo/, [ˈr̺ät̪t̪͡s̪jo]
• Rhymes: -attsjo
• Hyphenation: rà‧tio

Noun

ratio f (countable and uncountable, plural rati)

1. reason, motive

   Synonyms: motivazione, motivo, ragione

2. expedient

   Synonym: espediente

Related terms

• ragione
• razione

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Latin

Etymology

From reor (“to compute”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈra.ti.oː/, [ˈrät̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrat.t͡si.o/, [ˈrät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

ratiō f (genitive ratiōnis); third declension

1. reason, explanation
2. calculation, account
3. manner, method

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ratiō	ratiōnēs
Genitive	ratiōnis	ratiōnum
Dative	ratiōnī	ratiōnibus
Accusative	ratiōnem	ratiōnēs
Ablative	ratiōne	ratiōnibus
Vocative	ratiō	ratiōnēs

Derived terms

• ratiōnābilis
• ratiōnālis
• ratiōnārium
• ratiuncula

Descendants

• Aragonese: razón
• Asturian: razón
• Catalan: raó, ració (borrowing), ratio (borrowing)
• Dalmatian: rasaun
• English: ratio (borrowing), reason (through Old French), ration (through Middle French)
• French: raison, ration (borrowing), ratio (borrowing)
• Friulian: reson
• Galician: razón, ración (borrowing)
• Irish: réasún
• Italian: ragione, razione (borrowing), ratio (borrowing)
• Ladin: reson

• Occitan: rason
• Portuguese: razão, ração (borrowing), rácio (borrowing)
• Romanian: rațiune (borrowing), rație (borrowing)
• Romansch: raschun, raschung, radschun
• Sardinian: rajone, arraxoni, erresone, rasoni, regione, rexone
• Sicilian: ragiuni, raggiuni, raciuni
• Spanish: razón, ración (borrowing), ratio (borrowing)
• Venetian: raxon, rajon
• Walloon: råjhon

See also

• prōportiō

References

• “ratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ratio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ratio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the spirit of the times, the fashion: saeculi consuetudo or ratio atque inclinatio temporis (temporum)
    
  • the case is exactly similar (entirely different): eadem (longe alia) est huius rei ratio
    
  • to have regard for; take into consideration: rationem habere alicuius rei
    
  • to look after, guard a person's interests, welfare: rationibus alicuius prospicere or consulere (opp. officere, obstare, adversari)
    
  • my interests demanded it: meae rationes ita tulerunt
    
  • to form a conception, notion of a thing: notionem or rationem alicuius rei in animo informare or animo concipere
    
  • without reflection; inconsiderately; rashly: nullo consilio, nulla ratione, temere
    
  • after mature deliberation: inita subductaque ratione
    
  • to have a theoretical knowledge of a thing: ratione, doctrina (opp. usu) aliquid cognitum habere
    
  • to reduce a thing to its theoretical principles; to apply theory to a thing: ad artem, ad rationem revocare aliquid (De Or. 2. 11. 44)
    
  • to adopt a didactic tone: ad praecipiendi rationem delābi (Q. Fr. 1. 1. 6. 18)
    
  • logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
    
  • to arrange on strictly logical principles: ratione, eleganter (opp. nulla ratione, ineleganter, confuse) disponere aliquid
    
  • system: ratio; disciplina, ratio et disciplina; ars
    
  • to systematise: ad rationem, ad artem et praecepta revocare aliquid (De Or. 1. 41)
    
  • systematic, methodical knowledge: ratio et doctrina
    
  • to treat with scientific exactness; to classify: ad rationis praecepta accommodare aliquid
    
  • to upset the whole system: totam rationem evertere (pass. iacet tota ratio)
    
  • to proceed, carry on a discussion logically: ratione et via, via et ratione progredi, disputare (Or. 33. 116)
    
  • to enter on a new method: novam rationem ingredi
    
  • to be based on a sound principle: a certa ratione proficisci
    
  • to deal with a subject on scientific principles: ad philosophorum or philosophandi rationes revocare aliquid
    
  • to bring forward an argument (based on common-sense): rationem afferre (Verr. 3. 85. 195)
    
  • the conclusion proves that..: ratio or rationis conclusio efficit
    
  • the syllogism; reasoning: ratiocinatio, ratio
    
  • chronology: temporum ratio, descriptio, ordo
    
  • to calculate the date of an event: ad temporum rationem aliquid revocare
    
  • to draw a mathematical conclusion: mathematicorum ratione concludere aliquid
    
  • the connection of thought: ratio sententiarum
    
  • the connection of thought: ratio, qua sententiae inter se excipiunt.
    
  • to be endowed with reason: rationis participem (opp. expertem) esse
    
  • to be endowed with reason: ratione praeditum esse, uti
    
  • to act reasonably, judiciously: prudenter, considerate, consilio agere (opp. temere, nullo consilio, nulla ratione)
    
  • to be contrary to all reason: rationi repugnare
    
  • on principle: ratione; animi quodam iudicio
    
  • a sound and sensible system of conduct: vitae ratio bene ac sapienter instituta
    
  • the principles which I have followed since I came to man's estate: meae vitae rationes ab ineunte aetate susceptae (Imp. Pomp. 1. 1.)
    
  • to follow fixed principles of conduct: certas rationes in agendo sequi
    
  • finance; money-matters: ratio pecuniarum
    
  • account-book; ledger: codex or tabulae ratio accepti et expensi
    
  • to go through accounts, make a valuation of a thing: rationem alicuius rei inire, subducere
    
  • to do something after careful calculation: inita subductaque ratione aliquid facere
    
  • to balance accounts with some one: rationes putare cum aliquo
    
  • the accounts balance: ratio alicuius rei constat (convenit, par est)
    
  • the account of receipts and expenditure: ratio acceptorum et datorum (accepti et expensi) (Amic. 16. 58)
    
  • to keep the accounts (day-book) carefully: rationem diligenter conficere
    
  • to render count of a matter; to pass it for audit: rationem alicuius rei reddere
    
  • to demand an account, an audit of a matter: rationem alicuius rei reposcere aliquem or ab aliquo
    
  • to demand an account, an audit of a matter: rationem ab aliquo reptere de aliqua re (Cluent. 37. 104)
    
  • credit and financial position: fides et ratio pecuniarum
    
  • the interests of the state: commoda publica or rei publicae rationes
    
  • to further the public interests: rei publicae rationibus or simply rei publicae consulere
    
  • to consider a thing from a political point of view: ad rei publicae rationes aliquid referre
    
  • a democratic leader: homo florens in populari ratione
    
  • judicial organisation: ratio iudiciorum
    
  • to change one's tactics: rationem belli gerendi mutare (Liv. 32. 31)
    

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ratio. Doublet of razón and ración.

Noun

ratio f (plural ratios)

1. (mathematics) ratio