esteem Copy link Outline I. To consider, judge ofII. To entertain esteem for1. dīlĭgo, lexi, ctum, 3 (to love on grounds of respect and appreciation)2. observo, 1 (to treat with respect)3. magni, pluris, maximi or plurimi, făcio, fēci, factum, 3 (to e. highly, more highly, very highly indeed) • esteem: I. To consider, judge of: aestĭmo, pŭto, etc.: v. to think, consider (IV.). II. To entertain esteem for: 1. dīlĭgo, lexi, ctum, 3 (to love on grounds of respect and appreciation): to respect and e. any one, aliquem observare et d., Cic.: v. to love. 2. observo, 1 (to treat with respect): v. to respect. 3. magni, pluris, maximi or plurimi, făcio, fēci, factum, 3 (to e. highly, more highly, very highly indeed): I have learnt to e. you more and more highly every day, te quotidie pluris feci, Cic. Fam. 3, 4, med.: so with quanti, tanti: how highly I e. Pompey, quanti facio Pompeium, Cic. Simly with aestimo: v. to value.
esteem (subs.) Copy link • esteem (subs.): existĭmātio (usu. objectively, the consideration in which a person is held): v. reputation, character (III.). Very often expr. by aestĭmo, făcio: worthy of the highest e., *maximi, plurimi aestimandus; quem plurimi facere oporteat: you have my highest e., *te plurimi facio ut debeo: v. preced. art. fin. (Dignātio appears to be used in similar sense in late authors: cf. Suet. Vesp. 4: "Africam integerrime, nec sine magna dignatione [not without gaining great credit and e. thereby] administravit.")
ESTEEM Copy link • ESTEEM 1. Opinion, judgement, Vid: High value, reverential regard, aestimatio: observantia: existimatio (aestimatio denotes the estimating, valuing, etc., of anything, or its relative value; and in aestimatione dignus, aestimatione aliqua dignus [both Cic., Fin., 8, 13], it approaches the meaning of “high esteem;” but it should not be used generally, for the marks of esteem exhibited to anybody, which is observantia [ = the being attentive to a person]; nor for the esteem in which a person is held by others, which is existimatio): reverentia (reverential regard): dignatio (opinion; esteem caused by desert; perhaps not prae-Augustan; a favorite word with Tac., and Suet.; in summa dignatione alicujus vivere, Justinus). To possess or enjoy esteem, alicui habetur honor, coli et observari: to be held in some esteem, esse in numero aliquo et honore: aliquem numerum obtinere: to be held in very great esteem by anybody, longe maximo honore esse apud aliquem: to have or feel esteem for anyone, magni facere (to value highly); vereri, revereri aliquem; aliquem colere, tribuere alicui cultum (internal respect, regard); observare, honorare aliquem; reverentiam adhibere adversus aliquem or praestare alicui (to show outward respect to anyone); hence, also, colere et observare aliquem: to show due esteem for anyone, aliquem prosequi, with or without observantia (outwardly, whether freely or by compulsion). A man held in no esteem, homo sine existimatione (Cic.): the esteem in which you are held, existimatio tua: to be held in high esteem and honor by the people, cum populo et in laude et in gratia esse. 2. v. (α) (a person) highly, magni (very highly, maximi) facere: admirari, suspicere (to look up to; admirari, with admiration; suspicere, with a sense of one’s own inferiority): vereri: colere: vereri et colere (to feel reverential, heart-felt respect): aliquem revereri; reverentiam adhibere adversus aliquem or praestare alicui (to show reverential respect): aliquem observare or observantia colere (general term, to give outward proofs of one’s respect). (The words are found in this connection and order.) observare et colere; colere et observare; observare et diligere: diligere carumque habere (of attachment): not to esteem anybody, aliquem nullo loco putare; aliquem despicere or despectare. (β) A thing) highly, magni or magno aestimare (☞ not aestimare only); magni facere, habere, ducere, pendere; est honos alicui rei apud me: diligere (to like, etc., of persons and things; anything in anybody, aliquid in aliquo): lightly, parvi facere, aestimare; haud magni pendere: not to esteem anything at all, aliquid nullo loco numerare; aestimare nihilo, pro nihilo or nihil (Rams., §109, Not. 1, d); pro nihilo ducere, putare; nihili or non flocci facere; despicere et pio nihilo putare; contemnere et pro nihilo ducere; it all one, juxta aestimare (Sall., Cat., 2, 8): to esteem things equally, or one thing or person as much as another, aliquid alicui rei, or aliquem alicui, in aequo or parem ponere: aliquid alicui rei par facere; aliquem cum aliquo eodem loco et numero habere: res pari atque eadem laude ponere; one more than another, unum or unam rem alteri praeponere, anteponere or (reversedly) postponere, posthabere. Consider, deem, Vid: To esteem anything an honor, ducere aliquid gloriae; to one’s self, honori, gloriae sibi aliquid ducere; a credit, aliquid ducere laudi or ponere in laude (Cic.); a favor, ponere aliquid in beneficio (Cic., Fam., 15, 4, 12). I shall esteem it a favor if you will, mihi gratissimum feceris, si etc.