Where does “rationing” come from?
Rationing comes from English ration, from French ration, from Latin ratio meaning "reckoning" or "account," derived from the root of Latin reor meaning "to think" or "to calculate."
rationing (English): present participle of ration; A ration;...
Definitions
- present participle of ration; A ration;...
Ancestry of “rationing”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ration | A portion of some limited resource allocated to a... |
| 2 | French | ration | ration |
| 3 | Latin | ratiō | reason, reasoning, explanation, ground, motive, rationality, rationale, purpose |
| 4 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 5 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 6 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 7 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 9 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 10 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |