Where does “insospettire” come from?
insospettire (Italian) comes from Italian sospetto, from Italian sospettare, from Latin suspecto, from Latin suspectus, from Latin suspiciō, from Latin suspicere, from Latin specere, from Latin specio — to see, to look, to observe.
insospettire (Italian): to arouse suspicion, to make suspicious
Definitions
- to arouse suspicion, to make suspicious
Ancestry of “insospettire”, step by step
insospettire traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian sospetto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | sospetto | suspicious, suspect, questionable |
| 2 | Italian | sospettare | to suspect; to think, to imagine, to suspect; to... |
| 3 | Latin | suspecto | I suspect, mistrust, am suspicious of; dative... |
| 4 | Latin | suspectus | mistrusted, suspected, having been suspected;... |
| 5 | Latin | suspiciō | to look up at or to |
| 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 |