different between rationale vs stimulus

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ.???n??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ.???næl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) From Latin rati?n?le.

Noun

rationale (plural rationales or rationalia)

1. An explanation of the basis or fundamental reasons for something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. A justification or rationalization for something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (explanation): reasoning, rationalization
• (justification): reasoning

Translations

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) From Latin rati?n?le.

Noun

rationale (plural rationales)

1. (rare, religion) A liturgical vestment worn by some Christian bishops of various denominations.
   • 2015, Gregory Dipippo, "Rationale Worn by the Bishop of Eichstätt"[1]

     the local bishop, H.E. Gregor Maria Hanke, is shown wearing that rarest of liturgical garments, the rationale.

Translations

Anagrams

• alienator, taeniolar

Latin

Adjective

rati?n?le

1. nominative singular neuter of rati?n?lis (“rational, of reason”)
2. vocative singular neuter of rati?n?lis (“rational, of reason”)
3. accusative singular neuter of rati?n?lis (“rational, of reason”)

Noun

rati?n?le n (genitive rati?n?lis); third declension

1. The breastplate worn by Israelite high priests (Translation of ??????? (logeîon) or ?????? (lógion, “oracle”) in the Septuagint version of Exodus 28.)
   • Vulgate Bible, Exodus 28:15

     Rationale quoque iudicii facies opere polymito iuxta texturam superumeralis ex auro hyacintho et purpura coccoque bis tincto et bysso retorta (And you shall make the breastplate of judgment with skillful work; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shall you make it.)

2. a rationale worn by a bishop

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

References

• rationale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• rationale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stimulus (“goad, prick”)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?st?m.j?.l?s/

Noun

stimulus (plural stimuluses or stimuli)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Any external phenomenon that has an influence on a system, by triggering or modifying an internal phenomenon.

   an economic stimulus
2. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (physiology) Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response.
3. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (psychology) Anything effectively impinging upon any of the sensory apparatuses of a living organism, including physical phenomena both internal and external to the body.
4. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Anything that induces a person to take action.

Synonyms

• (anything that may have an impact or influence): influence
• (anything that induces a person to take action): impetus, impulse, spur

Translations

Esperanto

Verb

stimulus

1. conditional of stimuli

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stimulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti.my.lys/

Noun

stimulus m (plural stimulus or stimuli)

1. stimulus

Further reading

• “stimulus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (stíz?, “I mark”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sti.mu.lus/, [?s?t??m????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sti.mu.lus/, [?st?i?mulus]

Noun

stimulus m (genitive stimul?); second declension

1. a goad, prick
2. a sting
3. (figuratively) stimulus, incentive

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Related terms

• stimul?ti?
• stimul?

Descendants

References

• stimulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stimulus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stimulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• stimulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• stimulus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Probably from Latin

Noun

stimulus m (definite singular stimulusen, indefinite plural stimuli, definite plural stimuliene)

1. a stimulus

Related terms

• stimulere

References

• “stimulus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Probably from Latin

Noun

stimulus m (definite singular stimulusen, indefinite plural stimuli or stimulusar, definite plural stimuliane or stimulusane)

1. a stimulus

References

• “stimulus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.