suspicor

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsus.pi.kor/, [ˈs̠ʊs̠pɪkɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsus.pi.kor/, [ˈsuspikor]

Verb

suspicor (present infinitive suspicārī or suspicārier); first conjugation, deponent

1. to mistrust or suspect
2. to surmise, suppose, believe or conjecture

Conjugation

   Conjugation of suspicor (first conjugation, deponent)

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	suspicor	suspicāris, suspicāre	suspicātur	suspicāmur	suspicāminī	suspicantur
	imperfect	suspicābar	suspicābāris, suspicābāre	suspicābātur	suspicābāmur	suspicābāminī	suspicābantur
	future	suspicābor	suspicāberis, suspicābere	suspicābitur	suspicābimur	suspicābiminī	suspicābuntur
	perfect	suspicātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	suspicātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	suspicātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	suspicer	suspicēris, suspicēre	suspicētur	suspicēmur	suspicēminī	suspicentur
	imperfect	suspicārer	suspicārēris, suspicārēre	suspicārētur	suspicārēmur	suspicārēminī	suspicārentur
	perfect	suspicātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	suspicātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	suspicāre	—	—	suspicāminī	—
	future	—	suspicātor	suspicātor	—	—	suspicantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		suspicārī, suspicārier1	suspicātum esse	suspicātūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		suspicāns	suspicātus	suspicātūrus	—	—	suspicandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		suspicandī	suspicandō	suspicandum	suspicandō	suspicātum	suspicātū

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

Descendants

• Italian: sospicare
• Old French: soschier, souchier, souquier
  • → Catalan: sotjar

References

• “suspicor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “suspicor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• suspicor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (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)
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sŭspĭcari”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 12: Sk–š, page 473