rationabilis Latin · revision 8499

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Seneca|origins=la reor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ra.ti.oːˈnaː.bɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [rat.t͡si.oˈnaː.bi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ratiōnābilis''' (neuter ratiōnābile); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ratiō]] “reason” with the suffix [[-bilis]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Seneca, whom he dates 4 BC–65 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant having reason, rational, and agreeable to reason, reasonable.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant endowed with reason, reasonable, rational.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for reasonable, and in a mystical sense spiritual.^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin used it of rational creatures and of reasoning.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''ragionevole'', French ''raisonnable'' and Portuguese ''razoável'', and through Old French it gave [[en|reasonable]] about 1300.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – English ''reasonable'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|Rational]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|Reasonable]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' Spiritual.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[irratiōnābilis]]

+ * [[ratiōnābilitās]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ratiō]]

+ * [[ratiōnālis]]

+ * [[en|reasonable]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}