# inspector
## English
### Alternative forms

* inspectour (obsolete, rare)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnspector, from īnspiciō, equivalent to inspect +‎ -or.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪnˈspɛktə/
* (US) IPA: /ɪnˈspɛktɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: in‧spec‧tor

### Noun

inspector (plural inspectors)
* A person employed to inspect something.
** 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. […] There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]
** 2025 February 11, Jennifer Hansler, “USAID IG fired day after report critical of impacts of Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency”, in CNN‎:Martin had served as ﻿inspector general since December 2023. While President Donald Trump fired inspectors general from more than a dozen federal agencies during his first week in office, the USAID watchdog had remained in place.
* (law enforcement) A police officer ranking below superintendent.
* (computing) A software tool used to examine something.
** 2011, Adam McDaniel, HTML5, page 166:Chrome has a built-in development tool called the Chrome Inspector. You can use it to examine the HTML elements in a web page; review what resources — or files, cookies, and databases — are active; follow network activity; […]
** 2020, Anatoly Belous, Vitali Saladukha, Viruses, Hardware and Software Trojans, page 112:After that, with the help of the disk inspector, you can at any time compare the status of programs and system disk areas with the original one.

#### Derived terms

* detective inspector
* home inspector
* inspector general
* school inspector
* subinspector
* ticket-inspector
* ticket inspector
* weapons inspector

#### Related terms

* inspect
* inspection

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: インスペクター (insupekutā)

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* inceptors, proincest

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnspectōrem. First attested in 1803.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ins.pəkˈto]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ins.pekˈtoɾ]

### Noun

inspector m (plural inspectors, feminine inspectora)
* inspector

#### Related terms

* inspecció

### References

* ↑ “inspector”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### Further reading

* “inspector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “inspector” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “inspector” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin īnspector.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /inspekˈtoɾ/ [ins̺.pekˈt̪oɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Hyphenation: ins‧pec‧tor

### Noun

inspector m (plural inspectores, feminine inspectora, feminine plural inspectoras)
* inspector

#### Related terms

* inspección

### Further reading

* “inspector”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Latin
### Etymology

From īnspicio +‎ -tor.

### Noun

īnspector m (genitive īnspectōris); third declension
* (post-Augustan) viewer, observer, onlooker
* (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) inspector, examiner (especially one who inspects a household, monastery, etc)
* (Medieval Latin) spy
* (Medieval Latin, in divination) diviner

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Catalan: inspector
* French: inspecteur
* Galician: inspector
* Italian: ispettore
* Occitan: inspector
* Portuguese: inspetor
* Spanish: inspector

### Verb

īnspector
* first-person singular present passive indicative of īnspectō

### References

* “inspector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "inspector", 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)
* inspector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* inspector in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin īnspector.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Béarn):(file)

### Noun

inspector m (plural inspectors, feminine inspectritz, feminine plural inspectrises)
* inspector

#### Related terms

* inspeccion

## Portuguese
### Adjective

inspector (feminine inspectora, masculine plural inspectores, feminine plural inspectoras)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of inspetor. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

### Noun

inspector m (plural inspectores, feminine inspectora, feminine plural inspectoras)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of inspetor. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inspector, probably through French inspecteur. Compare Russian инспе́ктор (inspéktor).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /inˈspek.tor/

### Noun

inspector m (plural inspectori, feminine equivalent inspectoare)
* inspector
    Synonym: (Transylvania) inspicient

#### Derived terms

* inspector-șef

#### Related terms

* inspecta
* inspectare
* inspectiv
* inspectorat
* inspecție, inspecțiune

### See also

* revizor
* supraveghetor

### References

* inspector in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin īnspector.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /inspeɡˈtoɾ/ [ĩns.peɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: ins‧pec‧tor

### Noun

inspector m (plural inspectores, feminine inspectora, feminine plural inspectoras)
* inspector

#### Derived terms

* inspectoría

#### Related terms

* inspección
* inspeccionar

### Further reading

* “inspector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10