coniectura

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-kt

Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntder.

Latin iaciō

Latin cōniciō

Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?

Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?

Latin -tūra

Latin coniectūra

From cōniciō + -tūra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔn.jɛkˈtuː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon.jekˈtuː.ra]

Noun

coniectūra f (genitive coniectūrae); first declension

1. conjecture, guess, conjectural inference
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 511–512:

     DĀVUS: Audīvī et crēdō: multa concurrunt simul, / quī coniectūram hanc nunc faciō.

     DAVUS: I have heard [so], and I believe [it]: many things come together at the same time, because of which I now make this conjecture.

2. interpretation (of dreams), divining, soothsaying, prophesying

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	coniectūra	coniectūrae
genitive	coniectūrae	coniectūrārum
dative	coniectūrae	coniectūrīs
accusative	coniectūram	coniectūrās
ablative	coniectūrā	coniectūrīs
vocative	coniectūra	coniectūrae

Derived terms

• coniectūrālis

Related terms

• cōniciō
• coniectānea
• coniectārius
• coniectātiō
• coniectiō
• coniectō
• coniector
• coniectrix
• coniectūrāliter
• cōniectus

Descendants

• Catalan: conjectura
• English: conjecture
• French: conjecture
• Italian: congettura
• Sardinian: congittura
• Portuguese: conjetura, conjectura
• Romanian: conjectură
• Sicilian: cugnittura, cunjittura
• Spanish: conjetura

References

• “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