perspectus Latin · revision 34676

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *speḱ-ie/o-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''perspectus''' (feminine perspecta, neuter perspectum; superlative perspectissimus); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|perspiciō|t=to see through, examine]]: the participle of that verb, used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) The verb is a compound of [[m|la|per-|t=through]] and [[m|la|speciō|t=to look at]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) which goes back to [[itc-pro|*spekje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*speḱ-ie/o-|t=to look]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|पश्यति|tr=páśyati]] and [[grc|σκέπτομαι|tr=sképtomai]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of an art resting on things known and thoroughly examined.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is said of people and their qualities, known by observation and proved, and of facts, clearly understood.^(OLD 2012) Cicero writes of someone's virtue as ''experta atque perspecta'', “tried and proved”, and calls a friend's goodwill ''mihi perspectissima'', “well known to me”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of things examined and of proved qualities.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # (of a person or his qualities) Known by observation or experience, tried, [[m|en|proven|alt=proved]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # (of a fact) Clearly understood, [[m|en|evident]], well known.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A rare fourth-declension noun ''perspectus, -ūs'', the action or faculty of seeing through, is read in Vitruvius and in Lucan, where other editions have different words.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus has the adverb ''perspectē'', “intelligently”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}