suspectus

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