estimate (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Of money or dimensionII. In wider sense, judgment, appreciation1. jūdĭcium (any judgment or deliberately formed opinion)2. aestĭmātio • estimate (subs.): I. Of money or dimension: aestĭmātio (valuation, assessment): the entire power of making an e. of a person's property, potestas omnis ae. habendae summaeque faciendae, Cic. Verr. 2, 53, 131: to deliver an e. (of expense contemplated), ae. tradere, Vitr. 10, pref.: if the e. is exceeded by not more than 25 per cent., si non amplius quam quarta ad ae. est adjicienda, Vitr. l. c. Phr.: when the outlay corresponds to the e., quum ad dictum impensa respondet, Vitr. l. c.: to be careful in drawing out e.s, diligenter modum expensarum explicare; caute summaque diligentia [antequam instituantur] operum rationes expedire, Vitr. l. c. See also to estimate. II. In wider sense, judgment, appreciation: 1. jūdĭcium (any judgment or deliberately formed opinion): to form an e. of people's worth, j. facere quanti quisque faciendus esset, Cic. Fam. 13, 29, init.: to disappoint any one's e. of you (by misconduct), alicujus j. fallere, Auct. B. Alex. 15. 2. aestĭmātio: to form a lower e. of oneself than is formed by others, infra aliorum aestimationes se metiri, Vell. 2, 127, fin. Phr.: to form an e. of any one, judicare de aliquo, Brut. in Cic. Fam. 11, 10.