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Where does “multisuspect” come from?

multisuspect (English) comes from English suspect, from Middle French suspect, from Old French suspect, from Latin suspectus, from Latin suspiciō, from Latin suspicere, from Latin specere, from Latin specio — to see, to look, to observe.

multisuspect (English): Of or relating to multiple suspects

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to multiple suspects

Ancestry of “multisuspect”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsuspectTo imagine or suppose to be true, or to exist,...
2Middle Frenchsuspect—
3Old Frenchsuspect—
4Latinsuspectusmistrusted, suspected, having been suspected;...
5Latinsuspiciō—
6Latinsuspiceresecond-person singular present active subjunctive...
7Latinspecerepresent active infinitive of speciō;...
8LatinspecioI observe, watch, look at
9Proto-Italicspekjōto observe, to see
10Proto-Indo-Europeanspéḱyetito be looking at, to keep looking at
11Proto-Indo-Europeanspeḱ-to see, to look, to observe
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