existimatio

Latin

Etymology

From existimō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛk.siːs.tɪˈmaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eɡ.zis.tiˈmat.t͡si.o]

Noun

exīstimātiō f (genitive exīstimātiōnis); third declension

1. judgement, opinion (normally good)
2. reputation, honour, character, credit

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	exīstimātiō	exīstimātiōnēs
genitive	exīstimātiōnis	exīstimātiōnum
dative	exīstimātiōnī	exīstimātiōnibus
accusative	exīstimātiōnem	exīstimātiōnēs
ablative	exīstimātiōne	exīstimātiōnibus
vocative	exīstimātiō	exīstimātiōnēs

References

• “existimatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “existimatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “existimatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have a good or bad reputation, be spoken well, ill of: bona, mala existimatio est de aliquo
    
  • the common opinion, the general idea: existimatio hominum, omnium
    
  • public opinion: existimatio populi, hominum