English → Latin
“hypothesis” in Latin
conditiōa making, creating; condition, status, position, circumstanceopīniōopinion, conjecture, imagination, fancy, belief, expectation; reputation, esteem; report, rumorsententiaa way of thinking, view, opinion, judgement or sentence; a purpose, intention, will (one's thinking in respect to the fuconiciōto throw or bring together, unite, connect; to throw, drive, force, hurl something; to dispatch, assign, make goratiōreason, reasoning, explanation, ground, motive, rationality, rationale, purpose; calculation, account, accounting, reckohypothesishypothesisconiectōto throw, cast or bring together; connect; to conclude or infer by conjecture, guess; to conclude, interpret, prophesy (
The English word hypothesis itself goes back to Latin hypothesis.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
hypothesis
Condition, conditio.
Supposition: supposed opinion, ground, etc., opinio (one’s opinion, whether well-founded or not): sententia (opinion declared): conjectura (conjecture): Hypotheses, rationes, quae ex conjectura pendent, quae disputationibus huc illuc trahuntur (Cic., Acad., 2, 36, 116). Untenable hypotheses, sententiae futiles commenticiaeque: to form hypotheses, conjectare; about anything, de re: to rest on a hypothesis, conjectura niti: resting on hypotheses, opinabilis: full of hypotheses, opiniosus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for hypothesis?
- The usual Latin words for “hypothesis” are conditiō, opīniō, sententia; also coniciō, ratiō, hypothesis. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.