rationale
English
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Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -æl
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin rationale.
Noun
rationale (plural rationales)
- An explanation of the basis or fundamental reasons for something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- 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
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justification or rationalization
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Etymology 2
Noun
rationale (plural rationales)
- (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
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Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) ratiōnāle
- nominative singular neuter of ratiōnālis (“rational, of reason”)
- vocative singular neuter of ratiōnālis (“rational, of reason”)
- accusative singular neuter of ratiōnālis (“rational, of reason”)
Noun
ratiōnāle n (genitive ratiōnālis); third declension
- 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.)
- Vulgate Bible, Exodus 28:15
- a rationale worn by a bishop
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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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)
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