Borrowed fromLatincōgitāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of the verbcōgitō(“I think”).
cogitate (third-person singular simple presentcogitates,present participlecogitating,simple past and past participlecogitated)
- (intransitive) To meditate, toponder, to think deeply.
1605,Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, inThe Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot andThomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […],→OCLC:He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation,cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth.
- (transitive) To consider, to devise.
to meditate, to ponder, to think deeply
Translations to be checked
cogitate
- inflection ofcogitare:
- second-personpluralpresentindicative
- second-personpluralimperative
cogitate f pl
- feminineplural ofcogitato
cōgitāte
- second-personpluralpresentactiveimperative ofcōgitō
cōgitāte
- vocativemasculinesingular ofcōgitātus
- “cogitate”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cogitate”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cogitate inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
cogitate
- second-personsingular voseoimperative ofcogitar combined withte
