specto

Frequentative of speciō (“look at”) via its passive participle spectus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspek.toː/, [ˈs̠pɛkt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspek.to/, [ˈspɛkt̪o]

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spectō (present infinitive spectāre, perfect active spectāvī, supine spectātum); first conjugation

1. to watch, observe, look at, consider

   Synonyms: videō, intueor, tueor, vīsō, cōnspicor, īnspectō, observō, servō, speciō, invīsō, cōnspiciō, perlūstrō, īnspiciō, suspiciō

2. to examine, try, test

   Synonyms: periclitor, experior, temptō, probō, explōrō, reputō, cōnsīderō, perpendō, circumspiciō

3. to aim, strive, or endeavour after

   Synonyms: lūctor, ēlabōrō, certō, cōnītor, cōnor, appetō, temptō, affectō, tendō, quaerō, īnsequor, sitiō, studeō, contendō, adnītor, labōrō, pugnō, molior, perīclitor, nītor, ēnītor

   • Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 9:

     ad vim spectare res coepit

     The matters began to strive for violence

4. to seek, aspire to

   Synonyms: requīrō, affectō, cupiō, quaerō, studeō, concupiō, indigeō, inquīrō, conquīrō, petō, expetō, aveō, voveō, circumspiciō, appetō, intendō, quaesō, tendō

   Antonyms: āversor, abhorreō

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• “specto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “specto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• specto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• specto in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lie to the east, west, south, north: spectare in (vergere ad) orientem (solem), occidentem (solem), ad meridiem, in septentriones
    
  • to be situate to the north-west: spectare inter occasum solis et septentriones
    
  • to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere)
    
  • to have a high object in view; to be ambitious: magna sibi proponere or magna spectare
    
  • to have an object in view: spectare aliquid or ad aliquid
    
  • the matter tends towards..., has this object.[1: res eo spectat, ut
    
  • there seems a prospect of armed violence; things look like violence: res spectat ad vim (arma)
    
  • literally: si verba spectas
    
  • a man's policy is aiming at, directed towards..: alicuius in re publica or capessendae rei publicae consilia eo spectant, ut...