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existimo

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See also: existimó

Latin

Alternative forms

  • exīstumō

Etymology

From ex- + aestimō.

Pronunciation

Verb

exīstimō (present infinitive exīstimāre, perfect active exīstimāvī, supine exīstimātum); first conjugation

  1. to value, or esteem, estimate, reckon, consider [with genitive of quality (rare)]
    Synonyms: aestimō, habeō, videō
    aliquid parvī exīstimāreto consider something as low
  2. to think, suppose, judge or consider [with accusative ‘something’; or with de (+ ablative) ‘about something’]
    Synonyms: putō, cōgitō, sentiō, arbitror, crēdō, reor, cōnsīderō, reputō, iūdicō, cēnseō
    • 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?

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)
  • 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

  1. first-person singular present indicative of existimar

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