뜻

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

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

예문

• Igitur Antiochus mille et octingentis ablatis de templo talentis, velocius Antiochiam regressus est, existimans se prae superbia terram ad navigandum, pelagus vero ad ambulandum deducturum propter mentis elationem. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber II Maccabaeorum, 5 5:21)

  (불가타 성경, 마카베오기 하권, 5장 5:21)

• congregatis octoginta milibus et equitatu universo, veniebat adversus Iudaeos existimans se civitatem quidem Graecis habitaculum facturum; (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber II Maccabaeorum, 11 11:2)

  (불가타 성경, 마카베오기 하권, 11장 11:2)

• Dicit ei Iesus: " Mulier, quid ploras? Quem quaeris? ". Illa, existimans quia hortulanus esset, dicit ei: " Domine, si tu sustulisti eum, dicito mihi, ubi posuisti eum, et ego eum tollam ". (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Evangelium secundum Ioannem, 20 20:15)

  예수님께서 마리아에게 “여인아, 왜 우느냐? 누구를 찾느냐?” 하고 물으셨다. 마리아는 그분을 정원지기로 생각하고, “선생님, 선생님께서 그분을 옮겨 가셨으면 어디에 모셨는지 저에게 말씀해 주십시오. 제가 모셔 가겠습니다.” 하고 말하였다. (불가타 성경, 요한 복음서, 20장 20:15)

• ad signa convenire et ad se proficisci iuberet, magni interesse etiam in reliquum tempus ad opinionem Galliae existimans tantas videri Italiae facultates ut, si quid esset in bello detrimenti acceptum, non modo id brevi tempore sarciri, sed etiam maioribus augeri copiis posset. (CAESAR, COMMENTARIORVM DE BELLO GALLICO, SEXTVS, I 1:3)

  (카이사르, 갈리아 전기, 6권, 1장 1:3)

• Cum hoc idem postero die fecisset, satis ad Gallicam ostentationem minuendam militumque animos confirmandos factum existimans in Aeduos movit castra. (CAESAR, COMMENTARIORVM DE BELLO GALLICO, SEPTIMVS, LIII 53:3)

  (카이사르, 갈리아 전기, 7권, 53장 53:3)

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