inspector
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- inspectour (obsolete, rare)
Etymology[edit]
From Latin īnspector, from īnspiciō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
inspector (plural inspectors)
- 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. […]
- (law enforcement) A police officer ranking below superintendent.
- (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[edit]
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Descendants[edit]
- → Japanese: インスペクター (insupekutā)
Translations[edit]
person employed to inspect something
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police officer ranking below superintendent
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Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin īnspector, attested from 1803.[1]
Noun[edit]
inspector m (plural inspectors, feminine inspectora)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ “inspector”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
Further reading[edit]
- “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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
inspector m (plural inspectores, feminine inspectora, feminine plural inspectoras)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “inspector” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
īnspector m (genitive īnspectōris); third declension
- (post-Augustan) viewer, observer, onlooker
- (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) inspector, examiner (especially one who inspects a household, monastery, etc)
- (Medieval Latin) spy
- (Medieval Latin, in divination) diviner
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | īnspector | īnspectōrēs |
Genitive | īnspectōris | īnspectōrum |
Dative | īnspectōrī | īnspectōribus |
Accusative | īnspectōrem | īnspectōrēs |
Ablative | īnspectōre | īnspectōribus |
Vocative | īnspector | īnspectōrēs |
Descendants[edit]
Verb[edit]
īnspector
References[edit]
- “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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Occitan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Béarn) (file)
Noun[edit]
inspector m (plural inspectors, feminine inspectritz, feminine plural inspectrises)
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Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin inspector, probably through French inspecteur. Compare Russian инспе́ктор (inspéktor).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
inspector m (plural inspectori, feminine equivalent inspectoare)
- inspector
- Synonym: (dated) inspicient
Declension[edit]
Declension of inspector
singular | plural | |||
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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[edit]
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- inspector in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
inspector m (plural inspectores, feminine inspectora, feminine plural inspectoras)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “inspector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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