respect (v.) Copy link Outline I. To esteem highly.1. observo, 12. cŏlo, cŏlui, cultum, 3 (to honour)3. vĕreor, ĭtus, 2 (to regard respectfully)4. rĕvĕreor, ĭtus, 25. suspĭcio, pexi, pectum, 3 (to look up to)6. expr. by verbs like facio, aestimo, habeo, with gen. of price, or adv.II. To concern • respect (v.): I. To esteem highly. 1. observo, 1: to r. his fellow tribesmen, o. tribules suos, Cic. Planc. 18, 45. Join: o. et colere, Matius in Cic. Fam. 11, 28, extr. 2. cŏlo, cŏlui, cultum, 3 (to honour): to r. any one, observantia c. aliquem, Cic. Fam. 12, 27: v. honour. (N.B.--It is a stronger term than the preced. but weaker than the foll.: cf. id. Am. 22, 82: not only to r. and love each other, but even to feel profound regard, non solum c. inter se ac diligere, sed etiam vereri.) 3. vĕreor, ĭtus, 2 (to regard respectfully): whom he loved as a brother, and even r.'d as an elder brother, quem amabat ut fratrem et jam ut majorem fratrem verebatur, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 3: the slaves feared him, the children r.'d him, all loved him, metuebant servi, verebantur liberi, omnes carum habebant, id. Sen. 11, 37. 4. rĕvĕreor, ĭtus, 2: v. to reverence. 5. suspĭcio, pexi, pectum, 3 (to look up to): to r. those men, eos viros s., Cic. Off. 2, 10, 36. 6. expr. by verbs like facio, aestimo, habeo, with gen. of price, or adv.: I exceedingly r. Pompey, Pompeium plurimi facio, Cic. Fam. 3, 10, 2: to r. any one's authority, auctoritatem alicujus magni aestimare, id. Att. 7, 15; habere, Caes. B. G. 4, 21: v. esteem, value. II. To concern: attĭnet, 2 (used impers.): v. relate, No. II. Phr.: as r.s liberty to change his mind, ad immutandam animi licentiam, Cic. Rep. 1, 28: as r.s is often to be expr. by abl. alone, or with a, ab: unprepared as r.s men, money, imparatus a militibus, a pecunia, Cic. Att. 7, 15: v. foll. art. (III.).