CALCULATE Copy link • CALCULATEv. to reckon, computare, supputare (to sum up): alicujus rei rationem inire; ad calculos vocare aliquid: calculum ponere in re (to reckon over, take an account): computando efficere (to make out by calculating): to calculate expenses, or the cost, ad calculos vocare sumtus: to calculate an amount in the current coin of our own country, ad nostrae pecuniae rationem revocare aliquid: to calculate the course of the heavenly bodies, stellarum or siderum cursus et motus numeris persequi; cursus siderum dimetiri (measure and calculate): the loss can not be calculated, damnum majus est quam quod aestimari possit: to calculate every thing according to one’s own interest, omnia metiri emolumentis et commodis: to calculate with any one, rationem cum aliquo putare, instituere, conferre; rationem or calculum ponere cum aliquo (Plin., Panegyricus, 20, 5): to calculate every thing by pounds, shillings, and pence, omnia ad lucrum revocare: to learn to calculate, arithmetica discere: to calculate well, in arithmeticis satis exercitatum esse: to calculate by Olympiads, Olympiadum numero finire: the Gauls calculate time by days, and not by nights, Galli spatia omnis temporis non numero dierum, sed noctium finiunt (Caes., B.G., 6, 18): the Germans do not calculate time by days, as we do, hut by nights, Germani non dierum numerum, ut nos, sed noctium computant (Tac., Germania, 11, 2). To calculate upon a thing, sperare fore ut, etc. I calculate upon your coming, spero fore ut venias. IMPROPR., (a) to weigh anything, calculum ponere in re (Plin., Epistulae, 1, 14, 9): to calculate or weigh all the difficulties or circumstances attending any matter, ponere calculos in utraque parte (Plin., Epistulae, 2, 19, 9): (b) to intend a certain effect, accommodare aliquid ad rem.