cogitation

Meaning

Noun

• The process of cogitating; contemplation, deliberation, reflection, meditation.
• A carefully considered thought, idea, notion.

Origin

• Latinism, likely a , possibly influenced by or displacing an earlier cogitacion inherited from Middle English cogitacioun, from an Old French cogitaciun, from Vulgar Latin cōgitātiō; compare Middle French cogitatiun, French cogitation. All ultimately from verbal construction cōgitātus + -iō, from the perfect passive participle of Latin cōgitō, frequentative verb from con- + agitō, root from Proto-Italic *agō from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-.