Where does “sospettamente” come from?

sospettamente (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.

sospettamente (Italian): suspiciously, questionably

Definitions

  1. suspiciously, questionably

Ancestry of “sospettamente”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansospettosuspicious, suspect, questionable
2Italiansospettareto suspect; to think, to imagine, to suspect; to...
3LatinsuspectoI suspect, mistrust, am suspicious of; dative...
4Latinsuspectusmistrusted, suspected, having been suspected;...
5Latinsuspiciōto look up at or to
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
Every word from Proto-Indo-European speḱ-