different between repute vs estimation

English

Etymology

From Old French reputer, from Latin reputo (“I count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + puto (“I think”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???pju?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Noun

repute (usually uncountable, plural reputes)

1. Reputation, especially a good reputation.

   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

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Translations

Verb

repute (third-person singular simple present reputes, present participle reputing, simple past and past participle reputed)

1. (transitive) To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
2. (transitive) To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something

   • Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

   • 1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated

     If the comparison could be made, I verily believe these would be found to be almost infinituple of the other; which ought therefore to be reputed as nothing.

Translations

Further reading

• repute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• repute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• repute at OneLook Dictionary Search

Portuguese

Verb

repute

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of reputar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of reputar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of reputar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of reputar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?pute/, [re?pu.t?e]

Verb

repute

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of reputar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of reputar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of reputar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of reputar.

English

Alternative forms

• æstimation (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English estimacioun, estimacion, from Old French estimacion, from Latin aestimatio.Morphologically estimate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st??me???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

estimation (countable and uncountable, plural estimations)

1. The process of making an estimate.
2. The amount, extent, position, size, or value reached in an estimate.
3. Esteem or favourable regard.

Derived terms

• estimate

Related terms

• esteem

Translations

French

Alternative forms

• æstimation (obsolete)

Etymology

estimer +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s.ti.ma.sj??/

Noun

estimation f (plural estimations)

1. estimate; estimation (rough calculation or guess)

Further reading

• “estimation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).