rationale

English

A rationale (vestment) of a style used by the Catholic church

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹæ.ʃəˈnɑːl/
• IPA^(key): /ɹæ.ʃəˈnæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin rationale.

Noun

rationale (plural rationales)

1. An explanation of the basis or fundamental reasons for something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. A justification or rationalization for something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (explanation): reasoning, rationalization
• (justification): reasoning

Translations

explanation of the basis or fundamental reasons

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 推理 (zh) (tuīlǐ)

• Dutch: ratio (nl) f
• Finnish: perustelu (fi), perusteet pl, perussyyt pl
• German: Argumentation (de) f, Begründung (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: σκεπτικό (el) n (skeptikó)
• Russian: основа́ние (ru) n (osnovánije), обоснова́ние (ru) f (obosnovánije), оправда́ние (ru) n (opravdánije)
• Serbo-Croatian: razlog (sh), opravdanje (sh)
• Slovak: zdôvodnenie
• Spanish: fundamentación f, fundamento (es) m
• Turkish: mantıklı izah, ussal açıklama

justification or rationalization

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: perustelu (fi), perusteet pl
• French: justification (fr) f, rationalisation (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: uzasadnienie (pl) n
• Russian: основа́ние (ru) n (osnovánije)
• Slovak: zdôvodnenie
• Spanish: justificación (es) f

Etymology 2

Noun

rationale (plural rationales)

1. (rare, religion) A liturgical vestment worn by some Christian bishops of various denominations.
   • The website of the Passionist Fathers of southern Germany and Austria has recently posted some photographs of the opening of the Holy Door in the Diocese of Eichstätt, Germany, which are reproduced here by their very kind permission. In them, the local bishop, H.E. Gregor Maria Hanke, is shown wearing that rarest of liturgical garments, the rationale. [1]

Translations

liturgical vestment

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: rationaali
• French: rational (fr) m, surhuméral m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Rationale (de) n, Superhumerale n
• Italian: razionale (it) m
• Polish: racjonał m
• Russian: рационал (ru) m (racional)

Anagrams

• alienator, taeniolar

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) ratiōnāle

1. nominative singular neuter of ratiōnālis (“rational, of reason”)
2. vocative singular neuter of ratiōnālis (“rational, of reason”)
3. accusative singular neuter of ratiōnālis (“rational, of reason”)

Noun

ratiōnāle n (genitive ratiōnālis); third declension

1. The breastplate worn by Israelite high priests (Translation of λογεῖον (logeîon) or λόγιον (lógion, “oracle”) in the Septuagint version of Exodus 28.)
   • Vulgate Bible, Exodus 28:15

     Rationale quoque iudicii facies opere polymito iuxta texturam superumeralis ex auro hyacintho et purpura coccoque bis tincto et bysso retorta (And you shall make the breastplate of judgment with skillful work; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shall you make it.)

2. a rationale worn by a bishop

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ratiōnāle	ratiōnālia
Genitive	ratiōnālis	ratiōnālium
Dative	ratiōnālī	ratiōnālibus
Accusative	ratiōnāle	ratiōnālia
Ablative	ratiōnālī	ratiōnālibus
Vocative	ratiōnāle	ratiōnālia

References

• rationale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• rationale 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)