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• (英国発音)
  • (noun): IPA: /ˈɛs.tɪ.mət/
  • (verb): IPA: /ˈɛs.tɪˌmeɪt/
• (米国発音)
  • (noun):IPA: /ˈɛs.tə.mət/
  • (verb): IPA: /ˈɛs.təˌmeɪt/

語源 1

From 中期英語 estimat, borrowed from Latin aestimātus (“valuing, estimate”, only used in the ablative singular: "aestimātū..." (in valuing...)), from aestimō +‎ -tus (“action noun-forming suffix”).

名詞

estimate (plural estimates)

1. A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.

   Synonyms: estimation, appraisal

   Coordinate term: esteem

   1. (specifically in business and construction) A document (or verbal notification) specifying how much a job is likely to cost.

   Hypernym: quote

   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 3, in Well Tackled!‎:

     “They know our boats will stand up to their work,” said Willison, “and that counts for a good deal. A low estimate from us doesn't mean scamped work, but just that we want to keep the yard busy over a slack time.”

2. An upper limitation on some positive quantity.
   • 1992, Louis de Branges, “The convergence of Euler functions”, in Journal of Functional Analysis, →DOI, page 185:

     The desired norm estimate is now obtained from the identity... [referring to an earlier statement saying that a certain norm is less than or equal to a certain expression]

派生語

語源 2

Borrowed from Latin aestimātus, perfect passive participle of aestimō (“to estimate”) (see -ate), older form aestumō (“to value, rate, esteem”); from Old Latin *ais-temos (“one who cuts copper”), meaning one in the Roman Republic who mints money. Compare 中期英語 estymatt (“reputed”) / estimat. See also the doublet esteem, as well as aim.

動詞

estimate (third-person singular simple present estimates, present participle estimating, simple past and past participle estimated)

1. To calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.
   • 1965, Ian Hacking, Logic of Statistical Inference‎:

     I estimate that I need 400 board feet of lumber to complete a job, and then order 350 because I do not want a surplus, or perhaps order 450 because I do not want to make any subsequent orders.

   • 2003, Alexander J. Field, Gregory Clark, William A. Sundstrom, Research in Economic History‎:

     Higher real prices for durables are estimated to have reduced their consumption per capita by 1.09% in 1930, […]

2. To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data.
   • 1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC:

     It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of the piece, that men estimate commodities and exchange them.

   • 1870, John Campbell Shairp, Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations:

     It is always very difficult to estimate the age in which you are living.

同意語

• appraise, assess, approximate; (partial synonyms:) give, put

派生語

語源 3

From Latin aestimātus (“estimated”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 2 for more. Originally used as the past participle of estimate; compare generate or communicate.

形容詞

estimate (comparative more estimate, superlative most estimate)

1. (obsolete, rare) estimated

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “estimate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “estimate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “estimate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• etatisme, meatiest, seat time, tea-times, teatimes, étatisme