inspector

English

Alternative forms

• inspectour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnspector, from īnspiciō.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈspɛktə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈspɛktɚ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: in‧spec‧tor

Noun

inspector (plural inspectors)

1. A person employed to inspect something.
   • 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:

     Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. […] There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]

2. (law enforcement) A police officer ranking below superintendent.
3. (computing) A software tool used to examine something.
   • 2011, Adam McDaniel, HTML5, page 166:

     Chrome has a built-in development tool called the Chrome Inspector. You can use it to examine the HTML elements in a web page; review what resources — or files, cookies, and databases — are active; follow network activity; […]

   • 2020, Anatoly Belous, Vitali Saladukha, Viruses, Hardware and Software Trojans, page 112:

     After that, with the help of the disk inspector, you can at any time compare the status of programs and system disk areas with the original one.

Derived terms

• detective inspector
• home inspector
• inspector general
• school inspector
• subinspector
• ticket-inspector
• ticket inspector
• weapons inspector

 

Related terms

• inspect
• inspection

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: インスペクター (insupekutā)

Translations

person employed to inspect something

• Arabic: مُفَتِّش m (mufattiš)
• Azerbaijani: müfəttiş, təftişçi
• Belarusian: інспе́ктар m (inspjéktar), iнспэ́ктар m (inspéktar)
• Bulgarian: инспе́ктор (bg) m (inspéktor)
• Catalan: inspector (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 檢查員／检查员 (zh) (jiǎncháyuán)

• Crimean Tatar: teftişçi, müfettiş
• Czech: inspektor (cs) m
• Finnish: tarkastaja (fi), valvoja (fi)
• German: Inspektor (de) m, Inspektorin (de) f
• Greek: επιθεωρητής (el) m (epitheoritís)
• Hindi: निरीक्षक (hi) (nirīkṣak)
• Ingrian: revizora
• Irish: cigire (ga) m, banchigire m (female)
• Italian: ispettore (it) m, controllore (it) m
• Kazakh: инспектор (inspektor), тексеруші (tekseruşı), қадағалаушы (qadağalauşy)
• Kyrgyz: инспектор (ky) (inspektor)
• Macedonian: инспе́ктор m (inspéktor)
• Old English: inscēawere m, smēagend m
• Polish: inspektor (pl) m, inspektorka f
• Portuguese: inspetor (pt) m
• Romanian: inspector (ro) m, inspectoare (ro) f
• Russian: инспе́ктор (ru) m (inspéktor), ревизо́р (ru) m (revizór)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѝнспектор m

  Roman: ìnspektor (sh) m

• Slovak: inšpektor m
• Slovene: inšpektor m
• Spanish: inspector (es) m
• Swedish: inspektör (sv) c, kontrollant (sv), besiktningsman (sv) c
• Tagalog: pandaw
• Turkish: müfettiş (tr)
• Ukrainian: інспе́ктор m (inspéktor)

police officer ranking below superintendent

• Arabic: مُفَتِّش m (mufattiš)
• Czech: inspektor (cs) m
• Greek: επιθεωρητής (el) m or f (epitheoritís), υπαστυνόμος (el) m or f (ypastynómos)
• Italian: ispettore di polizia m
• Japanese: 警部 (ja) (けいぶ, keibu)
• Korean: 경위(警衛) (ko) (gyeong'wi)
• Polish: inspektor (pl) m, inspektorka f
• Portuguese: inspetor (pt) m
• Romanian: inspector de poliție m, ofițer de poliție m
• Russian: инспе́ктор (ru) m (inspéktor)
• Swahili: inspekta (sw)

Anagrams

• inceptors, proincest

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnspectōrem. First attested in 1803.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ins.pəkˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ins.pekˈtoɾ]

Noun

inspector m (plural inspectors, feminine inspectora)

1. inspector

Related terms

• inspecció

Further reading

• “inspector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “inspector” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “inspector” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin īnspector.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inspekˈtoɾ/ [ins̺.pekˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: ins‧pec‧tor

Noun

inspector m (plural inspectores, feminine inspectora, feminine plural inspectoras)

1. inspector

Related terms

• inspección

 

Further reading

• “inspector”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Latin

Etymology

From īnspicio +‎ -tor.

Noun

īnspector m (genitive īnspectōris); third declension

1. (post-Augustan) viewer, observer, onlooker
2. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) inspector, examiner (especially one who inspects a household, monastery, etc)
3. (Medieval Latin) spy
4. (Medieval Latin, in divination) diviner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īnspector	īnspectōrēs
Genitive	īnspectōris	īnspectōrum
Dative	īnspectōrī	īnspectōribus
Accusative	īnspectōrem	īnspectōrēs
Ablative	īnspectōre	īnspectōribus
Vocative	īnspector	īnspectōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: inspector
• French: inspecteur
• Galician: inspector
• Italian: ispettore
• Occitan: inspector
• Portuguese: inspetor
• Spanish: inspector

Verb

īnspector

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of īnspectō

References

• “inspector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inspector in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• inspector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• inspector in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin īnspector.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

Noun

inspector m (plural inspectors, feminine inspectritz, feminine plural inspectrises)

1. inspector

Related terms

• inspeccion

Portuguese

Adjective

inspector (feminine inspectora, masculine plural inspectores, feminine plural inspectoras)

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of inspetor. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

Noun

inspector m (plural inspectores, feminine inspectora, feminine plural inspectoras)

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of inspetor. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inspector, probably through French inspecteur. Compare Russian инспе́ктор (inspéktor).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈspek.tor/

Noun

inspector m (plural inspectori, feminine equivalent inspectoare)

1. inspector

   Synonym: (Transylvania) inspicient

Declension

Declension of inspector

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) inspector	inspectorul	(niște) inspectori	inspectorii
genitive/dative	(unui) inspector	inspectorului	(unor) inspectori	inspectorilor
vocative	inspectorule		inspectorilor

Derived terms

• inspector-șef

Related terms

• inspecta
• inspectare
• inspectiv
• inspectorat
• inspecție, inspecțiune

See also

• revizor
• supraveghetor

References

• inspector in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin īnspector.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inspeɡˈtoɾ/ [ĩns.peɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ins‧pec‧tor

Noun

inspector m (plural inspectores, feminine inspectora, feminine plural inspectoras)

1. inspector

Derived terms

• inspectoría

 

Related terms

• inspección
• inspeccionar

 

Further reading

• “inspector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014