conspectus

English

Etymology

From Latin cōnspectus (“survey”).

Noun

conspectus (plural conspectuses)

1. A detailed survey or overview of a subject.
   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter XIX, in Zuleika Dobson:

     Already the whole of his past life had vividly presented itself to him—myriads of tiny incidents, long forgotten, now standing out sharply in their due sequence. He had mastered this conspectus in a flash of time, and was already tired of it.

Further reading

• “conspectus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “conspectus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “conspectus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõːˈspɛk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈspɛk.tus]

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti

Proto-Italic *spekjō

Latin speciō

Latin cōnspiciō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin cōnspectus

From cōnspiciō + -tus (forming action nouns).

Noun

cōnspectus m (genitive cōnspectūs); fourth declension

1. a sight
2. sight (the ability to see; power of sight)
3. presence, proximity
4. (figuratively) survey, consideration

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnspectus	cōnspectūs
genitive	cōnspectūs	cōnspectuum
dative	cōnspectuī	cōnspectibus
accusative	cōnspectum	cōnspectūs
ablative	cōnspectū	cōnspectibus
vocative	cōnspectus	cōnspectūs

Derived terms

• in cōnspectū

Descendants

• Italian: cospetto
• Russian: конспе́кт (konspékt)
• Spanish: conspecto

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of cōnspiciō (“to perceive, observe”).

Participle

cōnspectus (feminine cōnspecta, neuter cōnspectum); first/second-declension participle

1. watched, looked at, having been watched
2. caught sight of, noticed, having been caught sight of
3. (by extension) visible
4. (figuratively) distinguished, noteworthy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cōnspectus	cōnspecta	cōnspectum		cōnspectī	cōnspectae	cōnspecta
genitive	cōnspectī	cōnspectae	cōnspectī		cōnspectōrum	cōnspectārum	cōnspectōrum
dative	cōnspectō	cōnspectae	cōnspectō		cōnspectīs
accusative	cōnspectum	cōnspectam	cōnspectum		cōnspectōs	cōnspectās	cōnspecta
ablative	cōnspectō	cōnspectā	cōnspectō		cōnspectīs
vocative	cōnspecte	cōnspecta	cōnspectum		cōnspectī	cōnspectae	cōnspecta

Descendants

• Galician: Cospeito (place name)

References

• “conspectus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conspectus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cōnspectus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cōnspectus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to go out of sight, disappear: abire ex oculis, e conspectu alicuius
    
  • to come in sight: venire in conspectum alicuius
    
  • to show oneself to some one: se in conspectum dare alicui
    
  • to keep out of a person's sight: fugere alicuius conspectum, aspectum
    
  • before every one, in the sight of the world: in conspectu omnium or omnibus inspectantibus
    
  • to take in everything at a glance: omnia uno aspectu, conspectu intueri
    
  • to give a general idea of a thing: in uno conspectu ponere aliquid
    
  • to make a short survey of a thing: in brevi conspectu ponere aliquid
    
  • to have a general idea of a thing: uno conspectu videre aliquid
    
• conspectus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016