suspicor

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Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

suspicor (present infinitive suspicārī or suspicārier, perfect active suspicātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

  1. to mistrust or suspect
  2. to surmise, suppose, believe or conjecture

Conjugation

1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

Descendants

References

  • suspicor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • suspicor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • suspicor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to raise the eyes to heaven; to look up to the sky: suspicere (in) caelum
    • (ambiguous) to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere)
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sŭspĭcari”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 12: Sk–š, page 473