뜻

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

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

예문

• quae cum tibi liceat, mihi nefas sit oblivisci, non modo virum bonum me existimabis verum etiam te a me amari plurimum iudicabis. (M. Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, LIBER QVINTVS DECIMVS: AD SENATVM ET CETEROS, letter 21 7:3)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 친구들에게 보낸 편지들, , 7:3)

• quam honorifice, quod ad me attinet, ex ipsius litteris cognosces (misi enim tibi exemplum), quam dissolute, quam turpiter quamque ita perniciose ut non numquam Caesar desiderandus esse videatur facile existimabis. (M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus, LIBER QVARTVS DECIMVS AD ATTICVM, letter 13 12:4)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 아티쿠스에게 보낸 편지들, , 12:4)

• sed tu, cum legeris, existimabis. (M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus, LIBER SEXTVS DECIMVS AD ATTICVM, letter 15 7:19)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 아티쿠스에게 보낸 편지들, , 7:19)

• ecce habes magnum maximo auctore documentum, quod patriae pars computanda sit et regio materna, nisi poetas et cum ab historia non recedunt mentiri existimabis. (Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, book 4, Sidonius Apro suo salutem 2:3)

  (시도니우스 아폴리나리스, 편지들, 4권, 2:3)

• si quid hinc tibi tuisque suspicionis incutitur, raptim doce recursu familiarium paginarum, ne vobis sollici- tudinis aut praesentiae meae opportunitas pereat, curae mihi peculiariter erit, si quid tamen cavendum existimabis, ut te faciat aut gratia impetrata securum aut explorata iracundia cautiorem. (Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, book 5, Sidonius Apollinari suo Salutem. 2:2)

  (시도니우스 아폴리나리스, 편지들, 5권, 2:2)

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