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reckon
English
Alternative forms
- reckin (dialectal)
- recken (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ?erecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-Germanic *rekan?n? (“to count, explain”), from Proto-Germanic *rekanaz (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?re?- (“to make straight or right”).
Cognate with Scots rekkin (“to ennumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute”), Saterland Frisian reekenje (“to calculate, figure, reckon”), West Frisian rekkenje (“to account, tally, calculate, figure”), Dutch rekenen (“to count, calculate, reckon”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???k?n/
- Rhymes: -?k?n
Verb
reckon (third-person singular simple present reckons, present participle reckoning, simple past and past participle reckoned)
- To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
- I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.
- To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- For him I reckon not in high estate Whom long descent of birth, Or the sphere of fortune, raises
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
- 1611, King James Version, Romans 4:9
- […] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
- Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.
- 1611, King James Version, Romans 4:9
- (colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
- I reckon he won't try that again.
- 1611, King James Version, Romans 8:18
- For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
- 1611, King James Version, Romans 6:11
- Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin.
- To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
- (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
- To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
- Parfay," sayst thou, sometime he reken shall."
Synonyms
- number
- enumerate
- compute
- calculate
- estimate
- value
- esteem
- account
- repute
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- calculate
- guess
References
- reckon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- conker, rocken
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speculate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin specul?tus, past participle of speculor (“look out”), from specula (“watchtower”), from speci? (“look at”)
Verb
speculate (third-person singular simple present speculates, present participle speculating, simple past and past participle speculated)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
- It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.
- (intransitive) To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
- (intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.
- (intransitive, programming) To anticipate which branch of code will be chosen and execute it in advance.
Related terms
- species
- spectacle
- spectacular
- speculation
- speculative
- speculator
Translations
Further reading
- speculate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- speculate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- peculates
Italian
Verb
speculate
- second-person plural present indicative of speculare
- second-person plural imperative of speculare
- feminine plural of speculato
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /spe.ku?la?.te/, [s?p?k????ä?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /spe.ku?la.te/, [sp?ku?l??t??]
Participle
specul?te
- vocative masculine singular of specul?tus
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