Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

representamen

/ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.mən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: rep-re-sen-ta-men
IPA: /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.mən/

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A representation; a thing serving to represent something.

Example Sentences

"The Leibnitzio-Wolfians distinguish three acts in the process of representative cognition: — 1° the act of representing a (mediate) object to the mind; 2° the representation, or, to speak more properly, representamen, itself as an (immediate or vicarious) object exhibited to the mind; 3° the act by which the mind is conscious, immediately of the representative object, and, through it, mediately of the remote object represented."
"A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity."

Etymology

From Latin repraesentāmen. See also represent.

Inflected Forms

representamens (plural) representamina (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

represent representable representant representation representative sign

Rhymes With

damon shaman little cayman grand cayman bremen layman daemon foramen caiman stamen neman flamen

Questions

How do you pronounce representamen?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.mən/.
What does representamen mean?: A representation; a thing serving to represent something.
Where does representamen come from?: From Latin repraesentāmen. See also represent.

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