“think” in Latin

To have ideas with consciousness, (1) Without an object, cogitare: intelligere: notiones rerum informare. (2) With an object, (a) T o think of anything; i. e., to imagine, conceive, aliquid cogitare: aliquid cogitatione comprehendere, percipere or complecti: aliquid mente concipere: aliquid cogitatione fingere or depingere (to form an image of anything in the mind): aliquid conjectura informare. In these parts I thought of nothing but fields and rocks, nihil in his locis nisi saxa et montes cogitabam: that cannot be thought of, id ne in cogitationem quidem cadit: think for a moment that you were in my place, eum te esse finge, qui ego sum; fac, qui ego sum, esse te: to think one’s self such or such an one, aliquem sentire, intelligere talem (Vid: Cic., Ecl., p. 141). (b) To think on anything = to meditate upon, cogitare de re; meditari rem or de re; rem versare in animo, or reputare in animo.

To believe, suppose, be of opinion, arbitrari: reri: censere: existimare: ducere: animum or in animum inducere: autumare [SYN. in BELIEVE]. “I think” (inserted parenthetically), credo: opinor (credo, like ὡς ἔοικεν, implies irony, in absurd or self-evident propositions: puto inserted without a dependent word or clause is classical, but rare; Krebs). Sometimes mea quidem opinione: ut ego existimo: ut mihi visus sum: quomodo mihi persuadeo (as I persuade or flatter myself; parenthetically, Cic., Rosc., Am., 2, 6, end).

To have in the mind, cogitare (with an infinitive); agitare animo (or secum) aliquid: I thought of going to Rome, cogitabam Romam ire (where ire may be omitted; Vid: Cic., Att., 16, 2, 4).

To remember, recordari: reminisci: meminisse [Vid: REMEMBER]: alicujus rei memoriam comprehendere: rei alicujus memoriam habere. To think no more of a thing, alicujus rei memoriam deponere; rem ex rnemoria deponere.

To consider, revolve in the mind, cogitare cum or in animo, or simply cogitare aliquid or de aliqua re: considerare in animo, cum animo, secum, or simply considerare aliquid or de aliqua re (to consider carefully): aliquid agitare mente or animo, or in mente or cum animo (to turn over in one’s mind): perpendere, pensitare aliquid (to weigh and ponder): (secum) meditare de aliqua re or aliquid (to think over, consider how anything ought to be done or to be): secum or cum animo reputare aliquid (to think over anything past or present, or of which the mind has formed a conception): apud animum proponere (to place before the mind; Sulpic. ap. Cic. ad Div., 4, 5, end): deliberare (to deliberate). Think of this one thing, hoc unum cogita: I think over many important subjects, versantur in animo meo multae et graves cogitationes: to think seriously on anything, toto pectore cogitare de re; diu multumque secum reputare aliquid; animo contemplari aliquid; intendere cogitationem in aliquid.

To be of a certain opinion, be disposed in a certain way, cogitare: sentire. To think affectionately toward anyone, amabiliter cogitare in aliquem: to think ill of anyone, male opinari de aliquo (Vid: Bremi, Suet., Caes., 51): to think one thing and say another, aliter sentire, aliter loqui; aliud clausum in pectore, aliud promtum in lingua habere (Sall., Cat., 10, 5).

To judge, judicare: sentire: (The words are found in this connection and order.) sentire et judicare: statuere. To think differently at different times on the same subject, alias aliud iisdem de rebus et sentire et judicare (Cic., De Or., 2, 7, 30): to think the same, idem sentire; idem mihi videtur: to think with anyone as he thinks, alicujus sententiam sequi: to think differently, aliter sentire; quite differently, longe dissentire; longe alia mihi mens est.

To have regard, care, consulere, prospicere alicui or alicujus rebus, rationibus: curare aliquid: rationem alicujus rei habere or ducere: respicere aliquid. To think of a person in one’s will, in testando memorem esse alicujus (after Liv., 1, 34); legare alicui aliquid in testamento (opposed to in testando immemorem esse alicujus).