different between repute vs guess

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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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.

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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

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?s, IPA^(key): /??s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English gessen, probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Danish getse, gitse, getsa (“to guess”), from Old Norse *getsa, *gitsa, from Proto-Germanic *gitis?n? (“to guess”), from Proto-Germanic *getan? (“to get”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ed- (“to take, seize”). Cognate with Danish gisse (“to guess”), Norwegian gissa, gjette (“to guess”), Swedish gissa (“to guess”), Saterland Frisian gisje (“to guess”), Dutch gissen (“to guess”), Low German gissen (“to guess”). Related also to Icelandic giska ("to guess"; from Proto-Germanic *gitisk?n?). Compare also Russian ??????? (gadát?, “to conjecture, guess, divine”), Albanian gjëzë (“riddle”) from gjej (“find, recover, obtain”). More at get.

Verb

guess (third-person singular simple present guesses, present participle guessing, simple past and past participle guessed)

1. To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
2. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.

3. (chiefly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
   • 1714, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace

     But in known images of life I guess / The labour greater.
4. (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".

5. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.

Synonyms

• hypothesize
• take a stab
• speculate
• assume

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Etymology 2

From Middle English gesse. Cognate with Dutch gis (“a guess”).

Noun

guess (plural guesses)

1. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

   Synonyms: estimate, hypothesis, prediction

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Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Guses