Latin

Verb

spectō ‎(present infinitive spectāre, perfect active spectāvī, supine spectātum); first conjugation

1. I watch, observe, look at, see
2. I test
3. I consider

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References

• specto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• specto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “specto”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lie to the east, west, south, north: spectare in (vergere ad) orientem (solem), occidentem (solem), ad meridiem, in septentriones
    
  • to be situate to the north-west: spectare inter occasum solis et septentriones
    
  • to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere)
    
  • to have a high object in view; to be ambitious: magna sibi proponere or magna spectare
    
  • to have an object in view: spectare aliquid or ad aliquid
    
  • the matter tends towards..., has this object.[1: res eo spectat, ut
    
  • there seems a prospect of armed violence; things look like violence: res spectat ad vim (arma)
    
  • literally: si verba spectas
    
  • a man's policy is aiming at, directed towards..: alicuius in re publica or capessendae rei publicae consilia eo spectant, ut...