suspecto Latin · revision 33575

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=ine-pro *speḱ-ie/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''suspectō''' (present infinitive suspectāre, perfect active suspectāvī, supine suspectātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|suspiciō#1|-tō|t1=to look up at; to suspect]], a frequentative formed on its participle [[m|la|suspectus#1]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|suspiciō#1]] is a compound of [[m|la|sub-]] and [[m|la|speciō|t=to look]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*spekje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*speḱ-ie/o-|t=to look]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|σκέπτομαι|tr=sképtomai|t=to look at]] and [[sa|पश्यति|tr=páśyati|t=looks at]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest citation in the OLD is Terence's ''Eunuchus'', of a girl sitting and gazing up at a painting: ''virgo sedet suspectans tabulam quandam pictam''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is to gaze up at,^(OLD 2012) as Pliny the Elder's lion looking up.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it ante-classical and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) From looking up at, it came to mean to look with mistrust upon, to be suspicious of a person or thing:^(OLD 2012) Tacitus says Tiberius distrusted Arruntius as rich, energetic and gifted, and that Valens suspected treachery behind his soldiers' insolence.^(OLD 2012) With an accusative and infinitive it is to suspect that something is the case.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, of a girl gazing at a painting.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of a lion looking up.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of suspecting a man and suspecting treachery.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To gaze up at, look up at.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|suspect]], [[m|en|mistrust]], be suspicious of.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To suspect the presence of (something evil); to suspect (that).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[suspiciō#1]]

+ * [[suspectus#1]]

+ * [[speciō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The OLD lists a separate adverb ''suspectō'', in suspicious circumstances, from [[suspectus#1]];^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from the jurist Paulus, and the Digest uses it of children who died in suspicious circumstances.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}