Translation
to suspect
Word origin
From Latin suspectare, the frequentative of suspicere ('to look up at, to mistrust'), built on sub ('from below') and specere ('to look'). To suspect someone is literally to eye them from below. The same specere root gives inspect and spectacle.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- suspectare
- English cognates
- suspect, suspicion, inspect
Examples
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The police suspect him of the crime.
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I suspect that she is lying.
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Nobody suspected the truth.
Note the preposition: you suspect someone something - .
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