aspicio

• adspiciō

From ad- (“to, towards, at”) +‎ speciō (“observe, look at”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [asˈpɪ.ki.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [asˈpiː.t͡ʃi.o]

aspiciō (present infinitive aspicere, perfect active aspexī, supine aspectum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. to look at, towards, or upon; behold, gaze at or upon; view, see, examine, survey, inspect, investigate; regard, respect, admire, look to.

   Synonyms: īnspiciō, lūstrō, perlūstrō, recēnseō, circumspiciō, cōnspiciō, obeō, arbitror, cōnsīderō, reputō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.283–285:

     “‘[...] Ut tē post multa tuōrum
     fūnera, post variōs hominumque urbisque labōrēs,
     dēfessī aspicimus! [...].’”

     “‘After so many of your [people have gone to their] deaths, after the disparate sufferings of citizen and city, how weary we look upon you!’”

2. to consider, weigh, ponder

   Synonyms: ponderō, dubitō, dēlīberō, cōnsultō, trahō, cōnsīderō, pendō, reputō, circumspiciō, cōnsulō, putō, versō, videō

3. to observe, notice, catch sight of, espy, perceive
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.567–569:

     “[...] līmina Vestae servantem / et tacitam sēcrētā in sēde latentem / Tyndarida aspiciō [...].”

     “[...] the thresholds of Vesta protecting [her], and [given that she was] hiding quietly in the temple – I catch sight of the forsaken daughter of Tyndareus [...].”
     (Patronymic: Helen was the daughter of Tyndareus.)

¹At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

• → English: aspect
• → Italian: aspettare

• “aspicio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aspicio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aspicio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • those to whom we owe our being: ei, propter quos hanc lucem aspeximus