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suspicio

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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sub- (under) +‎ speciō (watch, look at)

Pronunciation

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Verb

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suspiciō (present infinitive suspicere, perfect active suspexī, supine suspectum); third conjugation iō-variant

  1. to look up at or to
    Synonyms: videō, intueor, tueor, vīsō, spectō, īnspectō, īnspiciō, speciō, invīsō
  2. to admire, respect, regard, esteem, honor
    Synonyms: admīror, laudō, collaudō, mīrō, amplificō, augeō, praedicō, intueor
  3. to look askance
  4. to suspect or mistrust
    Synonym: diffīdō
    Antonyms: fīdō, confidō, credō
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Etymology 2

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From the verb suspiciō +‎ -iō. The irregular lengthening of the i is perhaps transferred from the semantically near opīniō. Romance forms originate in a variant with short i.

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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suspīciō f (genitive suspīciōnis); third declension

  1. suspicion
  2. mistrust
Declension
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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative suspīciō suspīciōnēs
genitive suspīciōnis suspīciōnum
dative suspīciōnī suspīciōnibus
accusative suspīciōnem suspīciōnēs
ablative suspīciōne suspīciōnibus
vocative suspīciō suspīciōnēs
Descendants
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  • French: suspicion

References

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  • Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “suspicio”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 570
  • suspicio2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • suspicio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • suspicio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • suspicio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to give ground for suspicion: locum dare suspicioni
    • to rouse a person's suspicions: suspicionem movere, excitare, inicere, dare alicui
    • to suspect a person: suspicionem habere de aliquo
    • to be suspected of a thing: suspicionem alicuius rei habere
    • a suspicion falls on some one: suspicio (alicuius rei) cadit in aliquem, pertinet ad aliquem
    • to make a person suspected: aliquem in suspicionem adducere (alicui), aliquem suspectum reddere
    • to become the object of suspicion: in suspicionem vocari, cadere
    • to be suspected by some one: in suspicionem alicui venire
    • to clear oneself of a suspicion: suspicionem a se removere, depellere, propulsare (Verr. 3. 60. 140)
    • to banish all feeling of prejudice from the mind: suspicionem ex animo delere
    • he is in a suspicious mood: suspicio insidet in animo ejus
    • he is in a suspicious mood: suspicio ei penitus inhaeret
    • the faintest suspicion: suspicio tenuissima, minima
    • to have no presentiment of a thing: a suspicione alicuius rei abhorrere
    • (ambiguous) to raise the eyes to heaven; to look up to the sky: suspicere (in) caelum
    • (ambiguous) to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere)
  • suspicio”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
  • suspicio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016