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Rationale

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means the underlying set of reasons or logical basis for a course of action
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Stage 1 of 2
rationalis
Latin · ancient
"relating to reason"
relating to reason, from ratio (reason, calculation)
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Stage 2 of 2
rationale
English · 1650s
"the underlying reasons or logical basis for something"
settled as the English word for the underlying reasons behind something
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