suspectus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of suspiciō (“mistrust, suspect”).

Participle

suspectus (feminine suspecta, neuter suspectum, comparative suspectior); first/second-declension participle

  1. mistrusted, suspected, having been suspected
  2. (in an active sense) suspicious, mistrustful

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative suspectus suspecta suspectum suspectī suspectae suspecta
Genitive suspectī suspectae suspectī suspectōrum suspectārum suspectōrum
Dative suspectō suspectō suspectīs
Accusative suspectum suspectam suspectum suspectōs suspectās suspecta
Ablative suspectō suspectā suspectō suspectīs
Vocative suspecte suspecta suspectum suspectī suspectae suspecta

Descendants
  • → Catalan: suspecte (learned)
  • → English: suspect

Noun

suspectus m (genitive suspectūs); fourth declension

  1. the act of looking up or upwards
  2. high regard, esteem, respect

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative suspectus suspectūs
Genitive suspectūs suspectuum
Dative suspectuī suspectibus
Accusative suspectum suspectūs
Ablative suspectū suspectibus
Vocative suspectus suspectūs

References
  • “suspectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “suspectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • suspectus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • suspectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to make a person suspected: aliquem in suspicionem adducere (alicui), aliquem suspectum reddere
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