coniectura
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kon.i̯ekˈtuː.ra/, [kɔni̯ɛkˈt̪uːrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.jekˈtu.ra/, [konjekˈt̪uːrä]
Noun
[edit]coniectūra f (genitive coniectūrae); first declension
- conjecture, guess, conjectural inference
- interpretation (of dreams), divining, soothsaying, prophesying
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | coniectūra | coniectūrae |
genitive | coniectūrae | coniectūrārum |
dative | coniectūrae | coniectūrīs |
accusative | coniectūram | coniectūrās |
ablative | coniectūrā | coniectūrīs |
vocative | coniectūra | coniectūrae |
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: conjectura
- English: conjecture
- French: conjecture
- Italian: congettura
- Sardinian: congittura
- Portuguese: conjetura, conjectura
- Romanian: conjectură
- Spanish: conjetura
References
[edit]- “coniectura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- coniectura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to conjecture: coniectura assequi, consequi, aliquid coniectura colligere
- as far as I can guess: quantum ego coniectura assequor, auguror
- to infer by comparison, judge one thing by another: coniecturam alicuius rei facere or capere ex aliqua re
- to judge others by oneself: de se (ex se de aliis) coniecturam facere
- it is a matter of conjecture, supposition: aliquid in coniectura positum est
- it is a matter of conjecture, supposition: aliquid coniectura nititur, continetur (Div. 1. 14. 24)
- to try to conjecture probabilities: probabilia coniectura sequi
- to conjecture: coniectura assequi, consequi, aliquid coniectura colligere