Where does “suspectest” come from?
suspectest (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.
suspectest (English): second-person singular simple present form of...
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- second-person singular simple present form of...
Ancestry of “suspectest”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | suspect | To imagine or suppose to be true, or to exist,... |
| 2 | Middle French | suspect | — |
| 3 | Old French | suspect | — |
| 4 | Latin | suspectus | mistrusted, suspected, having been suspected;... |
| 5 | Latin | suspiciō | — |
| 6 | Latin | suspicere | second-person singular present active subjunctive... |
| 7 | Latin | specere | present active infinitive of speciō;... |
| 8 | Latin | specio | I observe, watch, look at |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | spekjō | to observe, to see |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | spéḱyeti | to be looking at, to keep looking at |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | speḱ- | to see, to look, to observe |