inspecto Latin · revision 31681

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *speḱ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ĩːˈspɛk.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [inˈspɛk.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnspectō''' (present infinitive īnspectāre, perfect active īnspectāvī, supine īnspectātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|spectō|t2=to look at]], and serves as the frequentative of [[inspiciō|t=to look into]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨spectō⟩ to [[speciō|t=to look]], from [[itc-pro|*spekjō|alt=*spekje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*speḱ-|alt=*speḱ-ie/o-|t=to look]], cognate with [[sa|पश्यति|tr=páśyati|t=looks at]], [[grc|σκέπτομαι|tr=sképtomai|t=to look at]] and [[goh|spehōn|t=to spy]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first examples are in Plautus: in the ''Bacchides'' a lover longs for a chance to look at the girl.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means “to look at, watch, observe”, and intransitively “to look on”, as the jealous lover in the ''Bacchides'' who must look on while she lies beside another.^(OLD 2012) The present participle in the ablative absolute means “before the eyes of”: Plautus' Mercury promises the audience a trick ''vōbīs īnspectantibus'', “with you looking on”.^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short note that classical prose uses it only in the present participle.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The land surveyor Hyginus uses it of facing a direction.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of looking at a girl and watching.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 2nd half of 1st century BC – Hyginus of facing south.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To look at, watch, [[m|en|observe]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To look on;^(OLD 2012) ''īnspectantibus'', before the eyes of.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To face a direction.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adīnspectō]]

+ * [[inspectātiō]]

+ * [[inspectator]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[spectō]]

+ * [[inspiciō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}