ratiocinatio

From Latin ratiōcinātiō.

ratiocinatio (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) Reasoning (typically with oneself) by asking questions.
2. (rhetoric) Making statements, then asking the reason for such an affirmation, then answering oneself.

• anthypophora
• aetiologia

ratiōcinor +‎ -tiō

ratiōcinātiō f (genitive ratiōcinātiōnis); third declension

1. reasoning, ratiocination
   • c. 80 BCE – 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De Architectura 1.1:

     opera ea nāscitur ex fabricā et ratiōcinātiōne.

     That service arises from practiced skill and from reasoning.

Third-declension noun.

• → English: ratiocination

• “ratiocinatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ratiocinatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ratiocinatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the syllogism; reasoning: ratiocinatio, ratio