suspectus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of suspiciō (mistrust, suspect).

Pronunciation

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.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative suspectus suspecta suspectum suspectī suspectae suspecta
genitive suspectī suspectae suspectī suspectōrum suspectārum suspectōrum
dative suspectō suspectae 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
  • French: suspect

Etymology 2

From suspiciō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

Pronunciation

Noun

suspectus m (genitive suspectūs); fourth declension

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

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative suspectus suspectūs
genitive suspectūs suspectuum
dative suspectuī suspectibus
accusative suspectum suspectūs
ablative suspectū suspectibus
vocative suspectus suspectūs

Further reading

  • suspectus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • suspectus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • suspectus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • suspectus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • suspectus / suspectŭs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • "suspectus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to make a person suspected: aliquem in suspicionem adducere (alicui), aliquem suspectum reddere