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relatum

British  
/ rɪˈleɪtəm /

noun

  1. logic one of the objects between which a relation is said to hold

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Interiori Æthiopiae imperat Abissinorum Rex, qui Presbyter sive Pretiosus Ioannes, vulgo Prete Gianni, vocatur; magno, recepto tamen errore; cum is quondam in Asiae, ut relatum est, regno Tenduc regnaverit.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Hakluyt, Richard

The soul is the relatum, and is unintelligible and void of sense without its correlatum.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred

But it is always a relatum and never the relation itself.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

On account of its hierarchical inferiority, matter is often presented as the second, or correlatum, and form as the first, or relatum.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred

Thus a situation is an event which is a relatum in the relation of situation.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North