inspect

in-SPEKT · verb

Origin

From Latin inspectum, the past participle of inspicere, "to look into," itself built from in ("in") + specere ("to look at").

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The sense of looking closely into something has carried through from the Latin source.

It shares its root specere with the -spect element seen in words built the same way, joined here with in- to mean looking directly into something.

From Latin

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