prospiciens

Latin

Etymology

Present participle of prōspiciō.

Participle

prōspiciēns (genitive prōspicientis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. watching, seeing, gazing at or on, looking out or forth, beholding
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.126–127:

     [...] et altō prōspiciēns, summā placidum caput extulit undā.

     [...] and gazing outward over the deep, [Neptune] raised his peaceful face above the waves.
     (Neptune (mythology) appears calm despite his inner concern about the destructive storm at sea. The inverted order of events, or hysteron proteron, has Neptune “gazing”/“prospiciens” before he is “raised”/“extulit” above the water.)

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	prōspiciēns			prōspicientēs	prōspicientia
genitive	prōspicientis			prōspicientium
dative	prōspicientī			prōspicientibus
accusative	prōspicientem	prōspiciēns		prōspicientēs prōspicientīs	prōspicientia
ablative	prōspiciente prōspicientī1			prōspicientibus
vocative	prōspiciēns			prōspicientēs	prōspicientia

¹When used purely as an adjective.