Etymology
From con- + sīder-, a morpheme perhaps related to sīdus (“star; constellation”), but the connection is unclear (compare dēsīderō).[1][2]
Verb
cōnsīderō (present infinitive cōnsīderāre, perfect active cōnsīderāvī, supine cōnsīderātum); first conjugation
- to examine, look at or inspect, survey
- Synonyms: aspiciō, circumspiciō, lūstrō, perlūstrō, recēnseō, intueor, cōnspiciō, obeō, animadvertō, īnspiciō, reputō, arbitror, exsequor, spectō
- to consider, reflect, contemplate, meditate
- Synonyms: reflectō, perpendō, ponderō, putō, pendō, reputō, cōnsulō, replicō, dēlīberō, dubitō, cōnsultō, circumspiciō, videō, trahō, versō, probō
Conjugation
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References
- “considero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “considero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- considero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to think over, consider a thing: considerare in, cum animo, secum aliquid
- (ambiguous) to act reasonably, judiciously: prudenter, considerate, consilio agere (opp. temere, nullo consilio, nulla ratione)
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 562
Thomas George Tucker, A Concise Etymological Dictionary of Latin, 1931.