logicale

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

logica (logic) + -ale (-al, of or pertaining to)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lo.d͡ʒiˈka.le/
  • Rhymes: -ale
  • Hyphenation: lo‧gi‧cà‧le

Adjective

logicale (plural logicali)

  1. (archaic) logical
    Synonym: logico
    Antonym: illogico
    • c. 1531 [1483], Francesco Berni, “Canto ventesimosettimo [Twenty-seventh Canto]”, in Orlando innamorato - Tomo II, Venice: Antonio Zatta e figli, remake of Orlando innamorato by Matteo M.a Bojardo, published 1785, section I, lines 1–4, page 296:
      Sono animali al mondo di sì altera ,
      Di sì perversa e pazza opinione ,
      Che necessaria tengon , non che vera ,
      Una lor logical proposizione
      In this world, there are animals with such a haughty, perverted, and foolish opinion, that they deem necessary, not to mention true, a logical preposition of theirs
    • 1549, Bernardo Segni, “Libro primo [First book]”, in Della retorica d'Aristotile [Aristotle's Rhetoric], Venice, translation of Ῥητορική (Rhētorikḗ, Rhetoric) by Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristotélēs, Aristotle), published 1551, page 16, collected in Rettorica et poetica d'Aristotile:
      la Rettorica è composta della facultà logicale, et della moral disciplina
      Rhetoric is made of logical faculty, and of moral discipline

Further reading

  • logicale in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • logicale in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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