ESTATE Copy link • ESTATEState, Vid: Condition, rank, Vid: Landed property; usually with a real estate, praedium (sometimes the house on the estate): villa (a country-house; sometimes the estate): fundus (the real estate; usually with a country-house; villa is an architectural, fundus, an economical, praedium, a juridical term; Döderlein). An estate in the country, rusticum praedium: ager: rus (PROP., country; opposed to town; then metonymy, for “estate in the country “). ☞ On the construction of rus, rure, in this sense, Vid: Obs. in FARM, s. Estates, agri (fields, landed property); possessions (possessions, whether land or not). [Vid: PROPERTY]. To lay out money in purchasing a landed estate, pecuniam collocare in solo (Suet., Tiberius, 48): an estate near a town, propinquum rus (Ter., Eun., 5, 6, 2). The estates of the realm, *ordines imperii. Man’s estate, aetas pubes: anni pubertatis (age of puberty); aetas constans, or constans, quae media dicitur; aetas adulta, firmata, confirmata, corroborata (age of full manly strength). To come to man’s estate, robustiorem fieri; se corroborare; pubertatem ingredi: when he was now come to man’s estate, cum is se jam corroboravisset, et vir inter viros esset (Cic., caelius, 11, 6).