« reason » en sept langues
Sensreason
Espagnol
/raˈθon/
fém.héréditaire
Tener razón 'to be right'.
Français
/ʁɛzɔ̃/
fém.héréditaire
Avoir raison 'to be right'.
Italien
/raˈdʒone/
fém.héréditaire
Avere ragione 'to be right'.
Portugais
/haˈzɐ̃w/
fém.héréditaire
Ter razão 'to be right'; the learned doublet is ração 'ration'.
Roumain
/ratsiˈune/
fém.savant
'To be right' is a avea dreptate (literally 'to have justice'): ai dreptate.
Catalan
/rəˈo/
fém.héréditaire
Catalan dropped final -n after the stressed vowel: RATIŌNEM → raó. Tenir raó 'to be right'.
Anglais
/ˈɹizən/
du latin/français · Old French raison
L’ancêtre latin
RATIŌNEM‘reckoning, account; reason’
Les six sœurs en descendent, sauf indication contraire ci-dessous.
L’histoire
A textbook doublet: the inherited razón / raison / ragione beside the learned ración / ration / razione, 'a portion' — the same Latin RATIŌNEM taken twice, once by mouth and once from the page.
Parents anglais: reason, ratio, ration, rational
L’apprendre
Dans une phrase
- esTienes razón.
- frTu as raison.
- itHai ragione.
- ptVocê tem razão.
- roAi dreptate.
- caTens raó.
- enYou're right.
La famille latine
RAT-, RATIŌN-· reckon, reason
RATIŌNEM meant 'a reckoning, an account' and then 'reason'. Spoken Latin wore it down to razón, raison, ragione (and English reason, through French); scholars later borrowed it back with its bookkeeping sense intact as ración, ration, razione — an 'allotted share'. Portuguese razão and Catalan raó (which drops the final n) are inherited too; Romanian lost the word and borrowed rațiune and rație from the learned side.
RATIŌNEMreckoning; reason
esrazónfrraisonitragioneptrazãocaraóenreason
RATIŌNEMallotted share (learned)
esraciónfrrationitrazioneptraçãororațiecaracióenration
RATIŌNĀLEMendowed with reason
esracionalfrrationnelitrazionaleptracionalroraționalcaracionalenrational
RATIŌNĀBILEMreasonable
esrazonablefrraisonnableitragionevoleptrazoávelrorezonabilcaraonableenreasonable