ratiocinium

Latin

Noun

ratiōcinium n (genitive ratiōciniī or ratiōcinī); second declension

1. reckoning
2. computation
3. reasoning

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ratiōcinium	ratiōcinia
Genitive	ratiōciniī ratiōcinī1	ratiōciniōrum
Dative	ratiōciniō	ratiōciniīs
Accusative	ratiōcinium	ratiōcinia
Ablative	ratiōciniō	ratiōciniīs
Vocative	ratiōcinium	ratiōcinia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Catalan: raciocini
• Galician: raciocinio
• Portuguese: raciocínio
• Spanish: raciocinio

References

• “ratiocinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ratiocinium 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)
• ratiocinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.