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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ratiō. Doublet of ration and reason.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -eɪʃiəʊ

Noun

ratio (plural ratios or (rare, sense 3 only) rationes)

  1. A number representing a comparison between two named things.
    • 2019 January 23, Susan Scutti, “Climate change will affect gender ratio among newborns, scientists say”, in CNN‎:
      Scientists believe that the sex ratio is equal at conception, explained Steven Orzack, president and senior research scientist of the Fresh Pond Research Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    • 2021 April 19, Jennifer Yellin, “Capital One adds new airline and hotel partners to its credit cards, improves transfer ratios”, in CNN‎:
      On Monday, the issuer announced the addition of four new transfer partners — three airlines and one hotel chain — to its credit card rewards program, along with improved transfer ratios for several existing partners.
  2. (arithmetic) The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient).
  3. (law) Ellipsis of ratio decidendi.
  4. (Internet) The number of comments to a post or other expression on social media relative to the number of likes; a high ratio suggests disagreement with the contents of the original post.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Portuguese: rácio

Translations

Verb

ratio (third-person singular simple present ratios, present participle ratioing, simple past and past participle ratioed or ratio'd)

  1. (transitive, Internet slang) To respond to a post or message on social media in a greater number than the number of likes the post receives, especially to condemn or mock the original poster.
    The politician's post was quickly ratioed due to its controversial nature.
    • 2019 January 29, Veronica Stracqualursi, “Former Starbucks CEO heckled at book event for weighing independent run: ‘Don’t help elect Trump!’”, in CNN‎:
      “Don’t help elect Trump, you egotistical billionaire a**hole,” the protester yelled. “Go back to getting ratioed on Twitter. Go back to Davos with the other billionaire elites who think they know how to run the world. That’s not what democracy is.”
    • 2019, Henry Chisholm, "'Who Cares? It's women's hoops'", Montana Kaimin (The University of Montana), 30 January 2019 - 5 February 2019, page 29:
      It used to be fun to watch tweets like that get ratioed back into their ugly corner of the internet.
    • 2019 February 3, Pat Wiedenkeller, “Patriots, politics and puppies: Super Bowl LIII”, in CNN‎:
      Cue the goading Trump tweet (“Howard Schultz doesn’t have the ‘guts’ to run for President!”), the Twitter ratioing and the outrage from the left.
    • 2021 January 27, Leigh Tauss, “Ghost Roast”, in INDY Week, page 4:
      And, just FYI, here's how brutally the public ratioed that tweet.
    • 2021, @suburbanpoet, "Ratio or be Ratioed: Reluctant notes on Twitter", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 4, Semester 2 (2021), page 16:
      It is essential that you ratio anyone who comes for your honour.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ratio.

Interjection

ratio

  1. (neologism, Twitter) Indicates disagreement with a post the user disagrees with or dislikes.
    L + ratio
    • 2021, Lil Nas X, THE MONTERO SHOW‎:
      "Ratio. YoungBoy is better." "What?" "Make better music. You fell off."

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ratiō. Doublet of rantsoen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈraː.(t)si.oː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ra‧tio

Noun

ratio f (plural ratio's)

  1. (mathematics, countable) ratio, proportion
    Synonym: verhouding
  2. (uncountable) reason
    Synonyms: rede, verstand

Descendants

French

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ratio. Doublet of raison and ration.

Pronunciation

Noun

ratio m (plural ratios)

  1. (mathematics) ratio

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ratiō (“reason, explanation”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ratio f (uncountable)

  1. reason, motive
    Synonyms: motivazione, motivo, ragione
  2. expedient
    Synonym: espediente

Further reading

  • ratio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Etymology

From ratus/reor (“to compute”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

Noun

ratiō f (genitive ratiōnis); third declension

  1. reason, reasoning, explanation, ground, motive, rationality, rationale, purpose
    qua ratione ― for what reason
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.621–622:
      at tū, seu ratiō tē nostrīs appulit ōrīs sīve deus, rēgnī commodā carpe meī.
      But you, whether purpose or some god has driven you to our shores, enjoy the benefits of my kingdom. (trans. Anne and Peter Wiseman, 2011)
  2. calculation, account, accounting, reckoning, computation, business
    inire rationem ― to count
  3. procedure, course, manner, method, mode, conduct, plan
    Synonyms: modus, disciplīna
    qua ratione ― in what manner
    inire rationem ― to take an initiative, to form a plan
  4. theory, view
  5. doctrine, system, philosophy (collective body of the teachings of a school of thought)
  6. view, opinion, advice, consult
  7. register (list)
  8. regard, respect, interest, consideration
  9. reference, relation, respect

Declension

Third-declension noun.

More information singular, plural ...

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: ragione
    • Neapolitan: ragiune
    • Sicilian: ragiuni, raggiuni, raciuni
  • Padanian:
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance: (newer forms influenced by Italian)
    • Old Sardinian: rathone, rethone
  • Ancient borrowings:
    • → Proto-Albanian: *rrësye
      • Albanian: arsye, arrësye
    • → Proto-Brythonic: *rrėd

Learned borrowings:

See also

References

  • “ratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ratio in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • “ratio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "ratio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “ratio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the spirit of the times, the fashion: saeculi consuetudo or ratio atque inclinatio temporis (temporum)
    • the case is exactly similar (entirely different): eadem (longe alia) est huius rei ratio
    • to have regard for; take into consideration: rationem habere alicuius rei
    • to look after, guard a person's interests, welfare: rationibus alicuius prospicere or consulere (opp. officere, obstare, adversari)
    • my interests demanded it: meae rationes ita tulerunt
    • to form a conception, notion of a thing: notionem or rationem alicuius rei in animo informare or animo concipere
    • without reflection; inconsiderately; rashly: nullo consilio, nulla ratione, temere
    • after mature deliberation: inita subductaque ratione
    • to have a theoretical knowledge of a thing: ratione, doctrina (opp. usu) aliquid cognitum habere
    • to reduce a thing to its theoretical principles; to apply theory to a thing: ad artem, ad rationem revocare aliquid (De Or. 2. 11. 44)
    • to adopt a didactic tone: ad praecipiendi rationem delābi (Q. Fr. 1. 1. 6. 18)
    • logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
    • to arrange on strictly logical principles: ratione, eleganter (opp. nulla ratione, ineleganter, confuse) disponere aliquid
    • system: ratio; disciplina, ratio et disciplina; ars
    • to systematise: ad rationem, ad artem et praecepta revocare aliquid (De Or. 1. 41)
    • systematic, methodical knowledge: ratio et doctrina
    • to treat with scientific exactness; to classify: ad rationis praecepta accommodare aliquid
    • to upset the whole system: totam rationem evertere (pass. iacet tota ratio)
    • to proceed, carry on a discussion logically: ratione et via, via et ratione progredi, disputare (Or. 33. 116)
    • to enter on a new method: novam rationem ingredi
    • to be based on a sound principle: a certa ratione proficisci
    • to deal with a subject on scientific principles: ad philosophorum or philosophandi rationes revocare aliquid
    • to bring forward an argument (based on common-sense): rationem afferre (Verr. 3. 85. 195)
    • the conclusion proves that..: ratio or rationis conclusio efficit
    • the syllogism; reasoning: ratiocinatio, ratio
    • chronology: temporum ratio, descriptio, ordo
    • to calculate the date of an event: ad temporum rationem aliquid revocare
    • to draw a mathematical conclusion: mathematicorum ratione concludere aliquid
    • the connection of thought: ratio sententiarum
    • the connection of thought: ratio, qua sententiae inter se excipiunt.
    • to be endowed with reason: rationis participem (opp. expertem) esse
    • to be endowed with reason: ratione praeditum esse, uti
    • to act reasonably, judiciously: prudenter, considerate, consilio agere (opp. temere, nullo consilio, nulla ratione)
    • to be contrary to all reason: rationi repugnare
    • on principle: ratione; animi quodam iudicio
    • a sound and sensible system of conduct: vitae ratio bene ac sapienter instituta
    • the principles which I have followed since I came to man's estate: meae vitae rationes ab ineunte aetate susceptae (Imp. Pomp. 1. 1.)
    • to follow fixed principles of conduct: certas rationes in agendo sequi
    • finance; money-matters: ratio pecuniarum
    • account-book; ledger: codex or tabulae ratio accepti et expensi
    • to go through accounts, make a valuation of a thing: rationem alicuius rei inire, subducere
    • to do something after careful calculation: inita subductaque ratione aliquid facere
    • to balance accounts with some one: rationes putare cum aliquo
    • the accounts balance: ratio alicuius rei constat (convenit, par est)
    • the account of receipts and expenditure: ratio acceptorum et datorum (accepti et expensi) (Amic. 16. 58)
    • to keep the accounts (day-book) carefully: rationem diligenter conficere
    • to render count of a matter; to pass it for audit: rationem alicuius rei reddere
    • to demand an account, an audit of a matter: rationem alicuius rei reposcere aliquem or ab aliquo
    • to demand an account, an audit of a matter: rationem ab aliquo reptere de aliqua re (Cluent. 37. 104)
    • credit and financial position: fides et ratio pecuniarum
    • the interests of the state: commoda publica or rei publicae rationes
    • to further the public interests: rei publicae rationibus or simply rei publicae consulere
    • to consider a thing from a political point of view: ad rei publicae rationes aliquid referre
    • a democratic leader: homo florens in populari ratione
    • judicial organisation: ratio iudiciorum
    • to change one's tactics: rationem belli gerendi mutare (Liv. 32. 31)
  • Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964), “rathone”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ratio”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 105

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ratiō. Doublet of ración and razón.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈratjo/ [ˈra.t̪jo]
  • Rhymes: -atjo
  • Syllabification: ra‧tio

Noun

ratio f (plural ratios)

  1. (mathematics) ratio

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