reckon

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ġerecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-Germanic *rekanōną (“to count, explain”), from Proto-Germanic *rekanaz (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to make straight or right”).

Cognate with Latin rectus (“straight, right”), Scots rekkin (“to ennumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute”), West Frisian rekkenje (“to account, tally, calculate, figure”), Dutch rekenen (“to count, calculate, reckon”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”). See also reck, reach.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹɛkən/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛkən

Verb

reckon (third-person singular simple present reckons, present participle reckoning, simple past and past participle reckoned)

  1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
  2. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
  3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
    • 1611, King James Version, Romans 4:9
      […] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
    • (Can we date this quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.
  4. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
    I reckon he won't try that again.
    • 1611, King James Version, Romans 8:18
      For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
    • 1611, King James Version, Romans 6:11
      Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin.
  5. To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
  6. (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
  7. To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
    • (Can we date this quote by Chaucer and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Parfay," sayst thou, sometime he reckon shall."

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