estimable Copy link • estimable: laudātus, Cic.: v. praiseworthy. (But usu. bonus, optimus will be precise enough: v. excellent.) Phr.: he is a truly e. man, *dignus est quem diligas et carum habeas; *ejusmodi vir est quem vel plurimi aestimare deceat: v. to esteem.
ESTIMABLE Copy link • ESTIMABLEValuable, aestimatione dignus or dignandus: aestimandus. Deserving esteem or regard, venerandus: venerabilis: honore dignus: observantia dignus: honestus: gravis: bonus: probus, etc. (good). A very estimable person, vir optimus existimatione omnium (of one universally considered so, Hor.); quovis honore dignus (Terentianus). So etimable aperson, homo ea existimatione: ☞ aestimabilis = “that is liable to be taxed;” aestimatio is PROP. “valuation” (e.g., frumenti, etc.), but from context in aestimatione dignus, aestimandus, etc., has the meaning of “value” when applied to things; e.g., of wisdom, health, Cic., Fin., 3, 13, 43, 44.