cogitatio

Latin

Etymology

From cōgitō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koː.ɡiˈtaː.ti.oː/, [koːɡɪˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko.d͡ʒiˈtat.t͡si.o/, [kod͡ʒiˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

cōgitātiō f (genitive cōgitātiōnis); third declension

1. thinking, meditation, reflection
2. thought
3. reasoning
4. intention, plan, design

   Synonyms: voluntās, intentiō, propositum, cōnsilium, animus, mēns, spōns

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōgitātiō	cōgitātiōnēs
genitive	cōgitātiōnis	cōgitātiōnum
dative	cōgitātiōnī	cōgitātiōnibus
accusative	cōgitātiōnem	cōgitātiōnēs
ablative	cōgitātiōne	cōgitātiōnibus
vocative	cōgitātiō	cōgitātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: cogitació
• English: cogitation
• French: cogitation
• Italian: cogitazione
• Portuguese: cogitação, cuidação
• Spanish: cogitación, cuidazón

References

• “cogitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cogitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cogitatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to form an idea of a thing, imagine, conceive: animo, cogitatione aliquid fingere (or simply fingere, but without sibi), informare
    
  • to form a conception of a thing beforehand: animo, cogitatione aliquid praecipere (Off 1. 23. 81)
    
  • to picture to oneself: cogitatione sibi aliquid depingere
    
  • imagination: ingenium, cogitatio
    
  • creatures of the imagination: res cogitatione fictae or depictae
    
  • to grasp a thing mentally: animo, mente, cogitatione aliquid comprehendere, complecti
    
  • to happen to think of..: in eam cogitationem incidere
    
  • an idea strikes me: haec cogitatio subit animum
    
  • to induce a person to think that..: aliquem ad eam cogitationem adducere ut
    
  • to direct one's attention..: cogitationem, animum in aliquid intendere (Acad. 4. 46)
    
  • to give all one's attention to a thing: omnes cogitationes ad aliquid conferre
    
  • to be deep in thought: in cogitatione defixum esse
    
  • to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere)
    
  • ideally, not really: cogitatione, non re
    
  • to induce some one to take a brighter view of things: in meliorem spem, cogitationem aliquem inducere (Off. 2. 15. 53)
    
  • to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: in rem publicam omni cogitatione curaque incumbere (Fam. 10. 1. 2)
    
  • to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas et cogitationes in rem publicam conferre