cogitation

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*h₂eǵ-
2. Proto-Italic · derived from*agō“to drive, impel”
3. Latin · derived fromcōgitō“to turn over in the mind; think, consider, ponder, meditate”
4. Vulgar Latin · derived fromcōgitātiō, cōgitātiōnem
5. Old French · derived fromcogitaciun
6. Middle English · inherited fromcogitacioun
7. Medieval Latin · learned borrowing fromcogitatio, cogitationis
8. English todaycogitation

Latinism, likely a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin cogitatio, cogitationis, possibly influenced by or displacing an earlier doublet of cogitacion inherited from Middle English cogitacioun, from an Old French cogitaciun, from Vulgar Latin cōgitātiō, cōgitātiōnem; compare Middle French cogitatiun, French cogitation. All ultimately from verbal construction cōgitātus + -iō, from the perfect passive participle of Latin cōgitō (“to turn over in the mind; think, consider, ponder, meditate”), frequentative verb from con- (“together, with”) + agitō (“to put in constant motion, drive at something; devise, plot, contrive”), root from Proto-Italic *agō (“to drive, impel”) from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-.

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