뜻

1. 생각하다, 상상하다, 가정하다
2. 어림잡다, 판단하다, 평가하다, 숙고하다

1. I think or suppose
2. I estimate, judge or consider

예문

• Duces vero ii deliguntur qui una cum Q. Sertorio omnes annos fuerant summamque scientiam rei militaris habere existimabantur. (CAESAR, COMMENTARIORVM DE BELLO GALLICO, TERTIVS, XXIII 23:5)

  (카이사르, 갈리아 전기, 3권, 23장 23:5)

• Confines erant hi Senonibus civitatemque patrum memoria coniunxerant, sed ab hoc consilio afuisse existimabantur. (CAESAR, COMMENTARIORVM DE BELLO GALLICO, SEXTVS, III 3:5)

  (카이사르, 갈리아 전기, 6권, 3장 3:5)

• Idem cum prope ad annum octogesimum prospera pervenisset fortuna, extremis temporibus magnum in odium pervenit suorum civium, primo quod cum Demade de urbe tradenda Antipatro consenserat eiusque consilio Demosthenes cum ceteris, qui bene de re publica meriti existimabantur, populi scito in exilium erant expulsi. (Cornelius Tacitus, Vitae, Liber de Excellentibus Ducibus Exterarum Gentium, chapter 2 1:1)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, , , 2장 1:1)

• Ipse autem non sic arbitratur, et cor eius non ita existimat; sed in corde suo ad conterendum et ad internecionem gentium non paucarum. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Isaiae, 10 10:7)

  그러나 그는 그렇게 생각하지 않고 그러한 뜻을 마음에 품지도 않았다. 오로지 그의 마음속에는 멸망시키려는 생각과 적지 않은 수의 민족들을 파멸시키려는 생각뿐이었다. (불가타 성경, 이사야서, 10장 10:7)

• quia non audie runt Iudam et fratres eius existimantes fortiter se facturos. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber I Maccabaeorum, 5 5:61)

  (불가타 성경, 마카베오기 상권, 5장 5:61)

유의어 사전

1. Censere, judicare, arbitrari, æstimare, denote passing judgment with competent authority, derived from a call to the office of judge; censere, as possessing the authority of a censor, or of a senator giving his vote; judicare, as possessing that of a judge passing sentence; arbitrari, as possessing that of an arbitrator; æstimare (αἰσθέσθαι), as that of a taxer, making a valuation; whereas, opinari, putare, reri, and autumare, denote passing judgment under the form of a private opinion, with a purely subjective signification; opinari (ὀπίς) as a mere sentiment and conjecture, in opp. to a clear conviction and knowledge. Cic. Orat. i. 23. Mur. 30. Tusc. iv. 7. Rosc. Am. 10; putare, as one who casts up an account; reri as a poetical, and autumare as an antiquated term. 2. Æstimare denotes passing judgment under the form of the political function of an actual taxer, to estimate anything exactly, or according to its real value, or price in money; but existimare, as a moral function, to estimate anything according to its worth or truth; hence Cicero contrasts existimatio, not æstimatio, as a private opinion, with competent judgment, judicio; Cluent. 29. Verr. v. 68. 3. Censere denotes judgment and belief, as grounded upon one’s own reflection and conviction; credere, as grounded on the credit which is given to the testimony of others. 4. Opinor, parenthetically, implies modesty, like οἶμαι; whereas credo implies irony, like ὡσ ἔοικεν, sometimes in propositions that are self-evident, whereby the irony reaches the ears of those to whom the truth could not be plainly spoken or repeated, or who might be inclined to doubt it; sometimes, in absurd propositions which a man thinks fit to put in the mouth of another; sometimes, in propositions so evident as scarcely to admit of controversy. (v. 300.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein