뜻

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

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

예문

• Non enim puto argutiolam istam recipiendam, ut die dictum quasi ex die existimemus. (Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, Liber Nonus, XIV 27:4)

  (아울루스 겔리우스, 아테네의 밤, , 27:4)

• Esse autem nimis quam ineptum absurdumque, ut, quoniam aestus oceani cum lunae curriculo congruit, negotium quoque alicuius, quod ei forte de aquae ductu cum rivalibus aut de communi pariete cum vicino apud iudicem est, ut existimemus, id negotium quasi habena quadam de caelo vinctum gubernari. (Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, A. Gellii Noctium Atticarum Liber Quartus Decimus, I 5:1)

  (아울루스 겔리우스, 아테네의 밤, , 5:1)

• existimemus ita esse, desit aliquid lusui, non lusori ; (Seneca, De Beneficiis, Liber II 145:2)

  (세네카, 행복론, 145:2)

• Nisi si putamus ea quae nuper ac modo plane longinquis regionibus arcessitanotitiae nostrae sunt tradita, Biturici generis aut Basilici vineta eos coluisse, cum vetustissimas quasque vineas adhuc existimemus Amineas. (Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Res Rustica, book 3, chapter 9 3:3)

  (콜루멜라, 루키우스 유니우스 모데라투스, 농업론, 3권, 9장 3:3)

• Idemque praecipit, ut eos adversaries existimemus, qui arma contra ferant, non eos, qui suo iudicio tueri rem publicam velint, qualis fuit inter P. Africanum et Q. Metellum sine acerbitate dissensio. (M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis, LIBER PRIMUS 113:2)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 의무론, 113:2)

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