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• aestumō

From Old Latin aestumō, 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]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈae̯s.tɪ.moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛs.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

   Rūmōrēsque senum sevēriōrum omnēs ūnius aestimēmus assis.

   And let us judge all the rumors of very grave old men to be worth just one penny.

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^[1], 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 (in German), volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 230
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “aestimare”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 16