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Latin
Etymology
Present participle of prōspiciō.
Participle
prōspiciēns (genitive prōspicientis); third-declension one-termination participle
- watching, seeing, gazing at or on, looking out or forth, beholding
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.126–127:
- et altō prōspiciēns, summā placidum caput extulit undā.
- and gazing outward over the deep, raised his peaceful face above the waves.
(Neptune (mythology) appears calm despite his inner concern about the destructive storm at sea. The inverted order of events, or hysteron proteron, has Neptune “gazing”/“prospiciens” before he is “raised”/“extulit” above the water.)
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.