Translation
to think, judge; to consider
Examples
fecisse .
I think you acted rightly.
.
Many think these things are true.
arbitrabamur.
We thought the matter was serious.
arbitraris?
What do you think about this?
Arbitratus .
He judged that the enemy was far off.
Arbitror, arbitrari, arbitratus sum: first conjugation deponent, so passive in form and active in meaning throughout. Arbitror is "I think", never "I am thought", and arbitratus est is "he judged", not "he was judged". The perfect is built with sum, as every deponent perfect is.
It takes an accusative and infinitive for the thing judged. The root is arbiter, the third party called in to settle a dispute, so the verb starts from weighing evidence and only later softens. Puto is the everyday word for thinking; arbitror is the considered one, and Cicero reaches for it when he wants to sound careful rather than casual.
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