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Latin
Etymology
From existimō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
Noun
exīstimātiō f (genitive exīstimātiōnis); third declension
- judgement, opinion (normally good)
- reputation, honour, character, credit
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “existimatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “existimatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- existimatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have a good or bad reputation, be spoken well, ill of: bona, mala existimatio est de aliquo
- the common opinion, the general idea: existimatio hominum, omnium
- public opinion: existimatio populi, hominum