raciocinio

See also: raciocínio

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ratiōcinium.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Spain) /raθjoˈθinjo/ [ra.θjoˈθi.njo]
IPA^(key): (Latin America) /rasjoˈsinjo/ [ra.sjoˈsi.njo]
Rhymes: -injo
Syllabification: ra‧cio‧ci‧nio

Noun

raciocinio m (plural raciocinios)

reasoning
- 2015 October 25, Evgeny Morozov, “Silicon Valley contra la socialdemocracia”, in El País‎:
  Hace unos cuantos decenios, cuando el consumismo imprudente no había deteriorado aún nuestro raciocinio colectivo, esta actitud quizá nos habría parecido aberrante.
  A few decades ago, when reckless consumerism had not yet deteriorated our collective reasoning, this attitude might have seemed aberrant to us.

Further reading

“raciocinio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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