The corpus record — Latin

ratiocinativus

ratiocinativus · adj

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Where it lives

Institutio Oratoria 6 · 0.35/10k

What it meant

rătĭōcĭnātīvus — Lewis & Short

rătĭōcĭnātīvus, a, um, adj.id..

I In rhet., of or belonging to reasoning, syllogistic, ratiocinative: genus, Cic. Inv. 1, 13, 17: quaestio, Quint. 7, 1, 60: status, id. 7, 8, 3; cf. id. 3, 6, 46; 61; 5, 10, 6.—

II In gram.: ratiocinativa conjunctio, serving for inference, illative, as ergo, igitur, Diom. p. 410 P.

In the wild

ratiocinativus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 7.8.3
ratiocinativus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.6.62
ratiocinativum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.6.46
ratiocinativus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.6.43
ratiocinativum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 5.10.6
ratiocinativum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.6.61

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.