Where does “Sospita” come from?
Sospita (Latin) comes from Catalan sospitar, 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.
Ancestry of “Sospita”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Catalan | sospitar | to suspect |
| 2 | Latin | suspecto | I suspect, mistrust, am suspicious of; dative... |
| 3 | Latin | suspectus | mistrusted, suspected, having been suspected;... |
| 4 | Latin | suspiciō | — |
| 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 |