coniectura

From cōniciō +‎ -tūra.

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

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

First-declension noun.

• coniectūrālis

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

• “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