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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin īnspector, from īnspiciō, equivalent to inspect +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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. […]
    • 2025 February 11, Jennifer Hansler, “USAID IG fired day after report critical of impacts of Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency”, in CNN‎[1]:
      Martin had served as inspector general since December 2023. While President Donald Trump fired inspectors general from more than a dozen federal agencies during his first week in office, the USAID watchdog had remained in place.
  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

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Descendants

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  • → Japanese: インスペクター (insupekutā)

Translations

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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin īnspectōrem. First attested in 1803.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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inspector m (plural inspectors, feminine inspectora)

  1. inspector
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References

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  1. ^ “inspector”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Latin īnspector.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

  1. inspector
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Further reading

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Latin

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Etymology

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From īnspicio +‎ -tor.

Noun

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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

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative īnspector īnspectōrēs
genitive īnspectōris īnspectōrum
dative īnspectōrī īnspectōribus
accusative īnspectōrem īnspectōrēs
ablative īnspectōre īnspectōribus
vocative īnspector īnspectōrēs

Descendants

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Verb

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īnspector

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of īnspectō

References

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  • “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[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Occitan

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Etymology

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From Latin īnspector.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

  1. inspector
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Portuguese

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Adjective

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

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

Noun

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

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

Romanian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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inspector m (plural inspectori, feminine equivalent inspectoare)

  1. inspector
    Synonym: (Transylvania) inspicient

Declension

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Declension of inspector
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative inspector inspectorul inspectori inspectorii
genitive-dative inspector inspectorului inspectori inspectorilor
vocative inspectorule inspectorilor

Derived terms

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References

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Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin īnspector.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

  1. inspector

Derived terms

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Further reading

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