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Latin
Etymology
From cōniciō + -tūra.
Pronunciation
Noun
coniectūra f (genitive coniectūrae); first declension
- conjecture, guess, conjectural inference
- interpretation (of dreams), divining, soothsaying, prophesying
Declension
First-declension noun.
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References
- “coniectura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- coniectura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to conjecture: coniectura assequi, consequi, aliquid coniectura colligere
- as far as I can guess: quantum ego coniectura assequor, auguror
- to infer by comparison, judge one thing by another: coniecturam alicuius rei facere or capere ex aliqua re
- to judge others by oneself: de se (ex se de aliis) coniecturam facere
- it is a matter of conjecture, supposition: aliquid in coniectura positum est
- it is a matter of conjecture, supposition: aliquid coniectura nititur, continetur (Div. 1. 14. 24)
- to try to conjecture probabilities: probabilia coniectura sequi