dispectus Latin · revision 35897

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=4 BC–65 AD, Seneca|origins=la speciō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dispectus''' ''m'' (genitive dispectūs); fourth declension^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dispiciō|-tus|t1=to discern, consider]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) That verb is from [[m|la|dis-]] and [[m|la|speciō|t=to look]],^(Wiktionary) which de Vaan derives from [[itc-pro|*spekje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*speḱ-ie/o-|t=to look]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Seneca,^(Köbler 2010) who says in ''De ira'' that anger is unfit for discerning what is just and true.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Seneca uses it for the weighing up of duties, of what is to be done and of what is useful;^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) Lewis & Short gloss it “regard, consideration, examination”.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Pliny the Elder, of Corinthian vessels used with no discernment of their elegance, the reading is doubtful, and Barbarus conjectured ''respectū'' there.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it for discernment of what is just and of duties.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder may use it of Corinthian vessels.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Practical [[m|en|discernment]] (of something), [[m|en|consideration]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''dispectus'' is also the perfect participle of ''dispiciō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010) Georges and Köbler record a doubtful ''dīspectus'' “despised”, the same as ''dēspectus'', in the ''Latin Anthology'', where Riese reads ''dēspectīs''.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010) Two rarer words of the same spelling are not from ''dispiciō'': ''dispectus'' “set here and there”, of boundary stones in the land surveyors, perhaps from ''dis-'' and ''pangō'',^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) and ''dispectus'' “broken off”, of a marriage in Apuleius, which Gaffiot and Conte derive from ''dis-'' and ''pacīscor''.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}