Where does “sospitós” come from?
sospitós (Catalan) comes from Catalan sospitar, from Latin suspecto, from Latin suspectus, from Latin suspiciō, from Latin suspicere, from Latin specere, from Latin specio, from Proto-Italic spekjō — to see, to look, to observe.
sospitós (Catalan): suspicious
Definitions
- suspicious
Ancestry of “sospitós”, step by step
sospitós traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Catalan sospitar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | sospitar | to suspect |
| 2 | Latin | suspecto | I suspect, mistrust, am suspicious of; dative... |
| 3 | Latin | suspectus | mistrusted, suspected, having been suspected;... |
| 4 | Latin | suspiciō | to look up at or to |
| 5 | Latin | suspicere | second-person singular present active subjunctive... |
| 6 | Latin | specere | present active infinitive of speciō;... |
| 7 | Latin | specio | I observe, watch, look at |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | spekjō | to observe, to see |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | spéḱyeti | to be looking at, to keep looking at |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | speḱ- | to see, to look, to observe |