English
ratio
Ratio is borrowed from Latin ratiō ‘reckoning, reason’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEratiō‘reckoning, reason’
- Englishearliest quotation 2019ratio
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEratiō‘reckoning, reason’
- Englishearliest quotation 2019ratio
Earliest quotation: 2019, Susan Scutti, Climate change will affect gender ratio among newborns, scie: “Scientists believe that the sex ratio is equal at…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’
order, art, ready, army, article, arm, artist, ordinary, alarm, harmony, armor, coordinate, anarchy, coordination, arthritis, harmonic, ornament, subordinate, arithmetic, articulate, inert, armament, artisan, adorn, harmonious, ornate, ordination, aristocratic, armadillo, ordinate, harmonize, ordinal, rta, articulation, ordinator, archon, rime, ordain, ordo, artifice, 78 more
through Latin reor ‘to compute’
reasonable, rate, irritate, ratify, 14 more
through Latin ratiō ‘reason, reasoning, explanation, ground,…’
Today it means
noun A number representing a comparison between two named things.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ratiō / ratio