"reason" in sette lingue
Significatoreason
Spagnolo
/raˈθon/
f.ereditaria
Tener razón 'to be right'.
Francese
/ʁɛzɔ̃/
f.ereditaria
Avoir raison 'to be right'.
Italiano
/raˈdʒone/
f.ereditaria
Avere ragione 'to be right'.
Portoghese
/haˈzɐ̃w/
f.ereditaria
Ter razão 'to be right'; the learned doublet is ração 'ration'.
Rumeno
/ratsiˈune/
f.dotta
'To be right' is a avea dreptate (literally 'to have justice'): ai dreptate.
Catalano
/rəˈo/
f.ereditaria
Catalan dropped final -n after the stressed vowel: RATIŌNEM → raó. Tenir raó 'to be right'.
Inglese
/ˈɹizən/
dal latino/francese · Old French raison
L’antenato latino
RATIŌNEM‘reckoning, account; reason’
Tutte e sei le sorelle discendono da questa parola, salvo diversa indicazione qui sotto.
La storia
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.
Parenti inglesi: reason, ratio, ration, rational
Imparala
In una frase
- esTienes razón.
- frTu as raison.
- itHai ragione.
- ptVocê tem razão.
- roAi dreptate.
- caTens raó.
- enYou're right.
La famiglia latina
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