# cogito
## English
### Noun

cogito (usually uncountable, plural cogitos)
* (philosophy, often preceded by the, sometimes capitalized) The argument "cogito, ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am") from the philosophy of René Descartes; the mental act of thinking this thought; a conscious being which performs this mental act.
** 1957, Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Forrest Williams and Robert Kirkpatrick, The Transcendence of the Ego, Noonday Press, pages 43–44:The Cogito of Descartes and Husserl is an apprehension of fact. […] Such a Cogito is performed by a consciousness directed upon consciousness, a consciousness which takes consciousness as an object.
** 1966 Dec, Geoffrey Hartman, “Beyond Formalism”, in MLN, volume 81, number 5, page 551:But are there not as many consciousnesses or cogitos as there are individuals?
** 1984 Jan, Charles Larmore, “Descartes' Psychologistic Theory of Assent”, in History of Philosophy Quarterly, volume 1, number 1, page 65:An obvious candidate for this class of propositions would be the cogito, whose evidence, Descartes insisted, is not founded on inference.
** 2000 Spring, Linnell Secomb, "Fractured Community," Hypatia, vol. 15, no. 2, p. 138:
    Benhabib proposes a […] "recognition that the subjects of reason are finite, embodied and fragile creatures, and not disembodied cogitos or abstract unities of transcendental apperception".
** 2009 May, Ernest Sosa, “Précis of A Virtue Epistemology”, in Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, " vol. 144, no. 1, p. 109 n11:It may be thought that this leads to an even more radical skepticism than that envisaged by Descartes, since now even the cogito may be questioned.

### Anagrams

* ciotóg

## Catalan
### Verb

cogito
* first-person singular present indicative of cogitar

## French
### Noun

cogito m (plural cogitos)
* cogito

### Further reading

* “cogito”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Verb

cogito
* first-person singular present indicative of cogitare

### Anagrams

* gotico

## Latin
### Etymology

From con- +‎ agitō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkoː.ɡi.toː/, [ˈkoːɡɪt̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈko.d͡ʒi.to/, [ˈkɔːd͡ʒit̪o]

### Verb

cōgitō (present infinitive cōgitāre, perfect active cōgitāvī, supine cōgitātum); first conjugation [with accusative or dē (+ ablative)]
* to think
** 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations‎:Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.
* to ponder, meditate, reflect, consider (i.e. think of, about, over)
* to intend, design, purpose, plan, devise (i.e. have in mind)

#### Conjugation

$^1$At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

#### Synonyms

* (think): arbitror, sentio, puto, existimo, reor, iudico, censeo

#### Derived terms

* cōgitābundus
* cōgitātē
* cōgitātiō
* cōgitātum
* cōgitātus
* cōgitō, ergō sum
* excōgitō
* incōgitāns
* incōgitō
* recōgitō

#### Descendants

* Eastern Romance:
** Romanian: cugeta, cugetare
* Italian: cogitare, coitare
* Old Francoprovençal: cuidar, cuidier
** Franco-Provençal: cuidier, cuidar
* Old French: cuidier, cuider, kuider, quider, quidier
** Bourguignon: cueudai
** Lorrain: cueuder
** French: cuider
* Old Leonese:
** Asturian: cuidar
* Old Occitan: cuidar
** Occitan: coidar
* Old Galician-Portuguese: cuidar, coidar
** Galician: coidar
** Portuguese: cuidar
* Old Spanish: coidar
** Spanish: cuidar
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Romansch: quitar
* → Proto-Albanian: *kugitɔnjœ,
** Albanian: kujtonj (early version; Old Gheg)
*** Albanian: kujtoj
* → Catalan: cogitar
* → English: cogitate
* → French: cogiter
* → Italian: cogitare
* → Portuguese: cogitar
* → Spanish: cogitar

### References

* “cogito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “cogito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* cogito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to take no thought for the future: futura non cogitare, curare
* cogito in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Portuguese
### Verb

cogito
* first-person singular present indicative of cogitar

## Spanish
### Verb

cogito
* first-person singular present indicative of cogitar