infer Copy link Outline 1. collĭgo, lēgi, lectum, 32. conjĭcio, jēci, jectum, 3 (implying some difficulty or uncertainty)3. infĕro, 3, irr. (a tech. term, denoting a formal inference)4. interprĕtor, 1 (to put a certain construction upon words or acts) • infer: 1. collĭgo, lēgi, lectum, 3: you may i. from that how busy I am, ex eo c. poteris quanta occupatione distinear, Cic. Att. 7, 23: Petr. 2. conjĭcio, jēci, jectum, 3 (implying some difficulty or uncertainty): to i. so shrewdly (of the first Brutus), tam acute arguteque c. (de re), Cic. Br. 14, 53: Nep. 3. infĕro, 3, irr. (a tech. term, denoting a formal inference): then it is i.'d, deinde infertur, Cic. Inv. 1, 48, 89: Quint. 5, 11, 27. 4. interprĕtor, 1 (to put a certain construction upon words or acts): do not from necessity i. design, nolite consilium ex necessitate int., Cic. Rab. Post. 11, init. See also to conclude. Phr.: hence it may be i.'d, ex quo effici cogique potest (R. and A.): but the expr. is stronger than Eng.: v. to prove; also to follow (Phr.).