rascione

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raʃˈʃo.ne/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: ra‧sció‧ne

Noun

rascione f (plural rascioni or invariable) (Old Italian)

1. Alternative form of ragione
   1. reason (rational thinking)
      • a. 1306, Jacopone da Todi, De pericoli che intervengono a l’uomo che non guarda bene el viso ed altri sentimenti [About the dangers occurring to the man who does not look well at the face, and other feelings]‎^[1], lines 7–8; collected in Giovanni Ferri, editor, Le laude [The lauds]‎^[2], Bari: Gius. Laterza & figli, 1915, page 115:

        Audita la novella, — la carne fa sembiaglia / e contra la rascione — si dá grande battaglia (Umbria)

        Having heard the news, the Flesh makes up a rank, and does great battle against Reason

   2. reason, motive
      • 1211, anonymous author, untitled document; collected in “Frammento di un libro di banchieri fiorentini scritto nel 1211 [Fragment of a book of Florentine bankers, written in 1211]”, in Ernesto Monaci, editor, Crestomazia italiana dei primi secoli, con prospetto delle inflessioni grammaticali e glossario, volume 1, Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1889, page 25, lines 234–236:

        […] ci diè Mainetto Tornaquici soldi .cv. e denari .ij: pagolli per noi a Buonaquida Bencivenni: disse ke i rendea de la rascione ove l’avea sopra pagato Albertino .xviij. di intrante agosto.

        […] Mainetto Tornaquici gave us 105 soldi and 2 denari: he paid them, through us, to Buonaquida Bencivenni; he said he was giving them back for the reason for which Albertino had previously paid him 18 at the beginning of August.

      • 1350s, anonymous author, Cronica [Chronicle]‎^[3]; republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

        Prologo e primo capitolo dove se demostra le rascione per le quale questa opera fatta fu (Rome)

        Preface and first chapter, wherein the reasons for which this work was made are shown

        (title of a chapter)