Disputatio Usoris:Centrx

E Vicipaedia

IMy Latin is very poor but I will help you with pleasure, I will think about it. Ciao--Massimo Macconi 16:01, 15 Aprilis 2007 (UTC)

[recensere] salve

Salve, Centrx!

Gratus aut grata apud Vicipaediam Latinam acciperis! Ob collata tua gratias agimus speramusque fore ut delecteris et manere velis. Cum Vicipaedia nostra parva humilisque sit, paucae et exiguae sunt paginae auxilii, sed quid ni his incipias?

Si plura de modis et moribus Vicipaedianis scire vis, tibi suademus, ut Vicipaediam aliam adeas, exempli causa:

In ipsis paginis mos noster non est nomen dare, sed in paginis disputationis memento scriptis tuis subsignare, litteris imprimendis ~~~~, quae sua sponte et nomen tuum et diem dabunt. Etsi in paginis ipsis lingua Latina tantum uti liceat, in paginis disputationis qualibet lingua scribas. Si quid interrogare volueris, vel apud Tabernam vel in pagina mea disputationis rogato. Ave, spero te "Vicipaedianum" aut "Vicipaedianam" fieri velle!


Ideas without which Reason (rationality) is not

I would probably go for (literally):

Sententiae, sine quibus Ratio non est

If you gave me a fuller sentence, I might be able to do a little more polished job with that, but that will definitely work.

Welcome here!!

--Ioshus (disp) 16:03, 15 Aprilis 2007 (UTC)

Ratio is both reason and reasoning. reasoning at Words There is a word rationabilitas, but that's more the abstract ability, than the actual conrete reasoning. You might intensify ratio with an ipsa or an illa, but I think it is your best word. Cheers!--Ioshus (disp) 16:10, 15 Aprilis 2007 (UTC)
One more thing... idea is actually a Greek word, and it's use in Latin, while existent, is extremely rare. You might interested to know it's etymology. It's from PIE *weid, which is the stem for to see. Originally it passed into Greek with a digamma (I will substitute a W for digamma) ἐWείδον. This eventually moved to, when digamma dropped out, what is now the aorist of ὀράω, εἴδον. This is exactly cognate with Latin's videre (the V being pronounced exactly like the Greek digamma). So an idea is really just a "vision", in it's most basic sense. Sententia is usually the Latin equivalent in popular usage. Nifty huh? =] --Ioshus (disp) 16:22, 15 Aprilis 2007 (UTC)