aestimo

• aestumō

From Old Latin aestumāre, from Proto-Italic *aistomāō, whose origin is uncertain. Usually explained as aes (“copper, bronze”) +‎ *temos (“cut”), so “one who cuts copper”, meaning one in the Roman Republic who mints money. The second element is then from Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”).

However, De Vaan finds this improbable and instead proposes a connection with Proto-Indo-European *h₂eys- (“to seek”), found in aeruscō (“to beg”).^[1]

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈae̯s.ti.moː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈes.ti.mo/,

aestimō (present infinitive aestimāre, perfect active aestimāvī, supine aestimātum); first conjugation

1. to determine the value of something; value, price, rate, appraise, assess; estimate, reckon, consider, judge
2. to estimate the moral value of something; hold, weigh, value

• aestimātōrius

• “aestimo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aestimo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aestimo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to measure something by the standard of something else; to make something one's criterion: metiri, ponderare, aestimare, iudicare aliquid (ex) aliqua re
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “aestimare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 230
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “aestimare”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 16