# suspicio
## Latin
### Etymology 1

sub- (“under”) +‎ speciō (“watch, look at”)

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /susˈpi.ki.oː/, [s̠ʊs̠ˈpɪkioː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /susˈpi.t͡ʃi.o/, [susˈpiːt͡ʃio]

#### Verb

suspiciō (present infinitive suspicere, perfect active suspexī, supine suspectum); third conjugation iō-variant
* to look up at or to
    Synonyms: videō, intueor, tueor, vīsō, spectō, īnspectō, īnspiciō, speciō, invīsō
* to admire, respect, regard, esteem, honor
    Synonyms: admīror, laudō, collaudō, mīrō, amplificō, augeō, praedicō, intueor
* to look askance
* to suspect or mistrust
    Synonym: diffīdō
    Antonyms: fīdō, confidō, credō

##### Derived terms

* suspectiō
* suspīciō (noun)

#### References

* “suspicio1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

### Etymology 2

From the verb suspiciō +‎ -iō. The irregular lengthening of the i is perhaps transferred from the semantically near opīniō. Romance forms originate in a variant with short i.

#### Alternative forms

* suspītiō

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /susˈpiː.ki.oː/, [s̠ʊs̠ˈpiːkioː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /susˈpi.t͡ʃi.o/, [susˈpiːt͡ʃio]

#### Noun

suspīciō f (genitive suspīciōnis); third declension
* suspicion
    Absolvimus vōs omnis suspīciōnis.We absolve you of all suspicion.
* mistrust

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.

##### Descendants

* French: suspicion

#### References

* Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “suspicio”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 570
* “suspicio2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “suspicio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "suspicio", 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)
* suspicio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to give ground for suspicion: locum dare suspicioni to rouse a person's suspicions: suspicionem movere, excitare, inicere, dare alicui to suspect a person: suspicionem habere de aliquo to be suspected of a thing: suspicionem alicuius rei habere a suspicion falls on some one: suspicio (alicuius rei) cadit in aliquem, pertinet ad aliquem to make a person suspected: aliquem in suspicionem adducere (alicui), aliquem suspectum reddere to become the object of suspicion: in suspicionem vocari, cadere to be suspected by some one: in suspicionem alicui venire to clear oneself of a suspicion: suspicionem a se removere, depellere, propulsare (Verr. 3. 60. 140) to banish all feeling of prejudice from the mind: suspicionem ex animo delere he is in a suspicious mood: suspicio insidet in animo ejus he is in a suspicious mood: suspicio ei penitus inhaeret the faintest suspicion: suspicio tenuissima, minima to have no presentiment of a thing: a suspicione alicuius rei abhorrere (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)
* “suspicio”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
* suspicio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016