suppose

Betekenis

1. To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
2. To theorize or hypothesize.
3. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
4. (obsolete) To reckon to be, to account or esteem as.
5. To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
6. To put by fraud in the place of another.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/səˈpəʊz/

Etimologie

From Middle English supposen, borrowed from Old French supposer, equivalent to prefix sub- (“under”) + poser (“to place”); corresponding in meaning to Latin supponere (“to put under, to substitute, falsify, counterfeit”), suppositum. See pose.