Where does “sospetto” come from?
sospetto (Italian) comes from Italian sospettare, 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.
sospetto (Italian): suspicious, suspect, questionable
Definitions
- suspicious, suspect, questionable
Ancestry of “sospetto”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | sospettare | to suspect; to think, to imagine, to suspect; to... |
| 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 |