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existimo
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See also: existimó
Latin
Alternative forms
- exīstumō
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛkˈsiːs.tɪ.moː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eɡˈzis.ti.mo]
Verb
exīstimō (present infinitive exīstimāre, perfect active exīstimāvī, supine exīstimātum); first conjugation
- to value, or esteem, estimate, reckon, consider [with genitive of quality (rare)]
- c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Mostellaria 1.1.73:
- Satin abiit neque quod dixi flocci existumat?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Satin abiit neque quod dixi flocci existumat?
- 121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars Vita divi Augusti 40:
- Magni praeterea existimans sincerum atque ab omni colluvione peregrini ac servilis sanguinis incorruptum servare populum, et civitates Romanas parcissime dedit et manumittendi modum termi navit.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Magni praeterea existimans sincerum atque ab omni colluvione peregrini ac servilis sanguinis incorruptum servare populum, et civitates Romanas parcissime dedit et manumittendi modum termi navit.
- to think, suppose, judge or consider [with accusative ‘something’; or with de (+ ablative) ‘about something’]
- 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.29:
- An, cum bellō vastābitur Ītalia, vexābuntur urbēs, tēcta ārdēbunt, tum tē nōn exīstumās invidiae incendiō cōnflagrātūrum?
- Or, when Italy will be ravaged by war, cities attacked, [and] homes are burning, do you not think that then [you] will be consumed by the fire of [public] hatred?
- An, cum bellō vastābitur Ītalia, vexābuntur urbēs, tēcta ārdēbunt, tum tē nōn exīstumās invidiae incendiō cōnflagrātūrum?
Conjugation
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Derived terms
References
- “existimo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “existimo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “existimo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- that is exactly what I think: ita prorsus existimo
- (ambiguous) a (competent, intelligent, subtle) critic: existimator (doctus, intellegens, acerrimus)
- that is exactly what I think: ita prorsus existimo
- existimo, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
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Spanish
Verb
existimo
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