censeo

From Proto-Italic *kensēō, from earlier *kensējō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱenséh₁-ye-ti, from *ḱens- (“to announce”). Cognate with Sanskrit शंसति (śáṃsati, “to declare”), Proto-Iranian *cánhati.

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cēnseō (present infinitive cēnsēre, perfect active cēnsuī, supine cēnsum); second conjugation

1. to give an opinion
2. to think, suppose or judge

   Synonyms: credo, reor, opinor, iūdicō, sentio, existimo, cogito, considero, arbitror, puto, reputo

3. to recommend, advise

   Synonyms: suādeō, commendō, conciliō, dēlīberō, moneō, admoneō, praedicō

   • Cato the Elder:

     Cēterum cēnseō Carthāginem esse dēlendam

     Furthermore, I recommend that Carthage must be destroyed

4. to decree, vote or determine

   Synonym: cōnscīscō

5. to count or reckon, assess
6. to register the citizens, perform the task of a censor

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

• English: census
• → Middle French: censer
  • French: censé

• “censeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “censeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• censeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the censors hold a census of the people: censores censent populum
    
  • what is your opinion: quid censes? quid tibi videtur?
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 107