existimatio

From existimō +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛk.siːs.tɪˈmaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eɡ.zis.t̪iˈmat̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]

exīstimātiō f (genitive exīstimātiōnis); third declension

1. judgement, opinion (normally good)
2. reputation, honour, character, credit

Third-declension noun.

• “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^[1], 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