estimate
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aestimatus, past participle of aestimō, older form aestumo ("to value, rate, esteem"); from itc-ola - *ais-temos ("one who cuts copper"), meaning one in the Roman Republic who mints money.
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estimate (plural estimates)
- A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.
- Synonyms: estimation, appraisal
- Coordinate term: esteem
- (construction and business) A document (or verbal notification) specifying how much a job is likely to cost.
- Hypernyms: quote#Noun
- An upper limitation on some positive quantity.
- French: estimation
- German: Schätzung, Abschätzung
- Italian: stima
- Portuguese: estimativa, cálculo
- Russian: оце́нка
- Spanish: presupuesto, estimación
- French: devis
- German: Kostenvoranschlag
- Italian: preventivo
- Russian: сме́та
estimate (estimates, present participle estimating; simple past and past participle estimated)
- To calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.
- To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data.
- 1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC ↗:
- It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of the piece, that men estimate commodities and exchange them.
- French: estimer
- German: abschätzen, schätzen
- Italian: stimare
- Portuguese: estimar
- Russian: оце́нивать
- Spanish: estimar
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