relatum

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   one of the terms or entities that stand in a relation; plural relata

   If resemblance is a relation between the two portraits, each portrait is a relatum.

2. 2
   noun

   in a directed relation, the term to which the relation proceeds, contrasted with the referent from which it proceeds

   In the relation of a parent to a child, the parent is the referent and the child is the relatum.

Borrowed from Latin relatum, the neuter past participle of referre ("to carry back, report, relate"), from re- + ferre ("to carry"). Philosophical and logical Latin used the neuter form as a noun for a thing related to another.

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