Word: consider

To consider may be, at the root, to read the stars — Latin con- + sidus — to look up at a sky you did not make and read it for what to do, as a navigator reads it or an augur did before any action was allowed to begin. The leading guess, and an unproven one: de Vaan endorses no derivation, Tucker doubted the stars, and sidus itself has no agreed origin, so the word for careful judgment is a…