spectator

• spectatour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin spectātor, from frequentative verb spectō (“watch”), from speciō (“look at”).

• (UK) enPR: spĕk.tāʹtə, IPA^(key): /spɛkˈteɪtə/
• (US) enPR: spĕkʹtā.tər, IPA^(key): /ˈspɛkteɪtɚ/

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spectator (plural spectators)

1. One who watches an event; especially, one held outdoors.

   The cheering spectators watched the fireworks.

   • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     Bart spies an opportunity to make a quick buck so he channels his inner carny and posits his sinking house as a natural wonder of the world and its inhabitants as freaks, barking to dazzled spectators, “Behold the horrors of the Slanty Shanty! See the twisted creatures that dwell within! Meet Cue-Ball, the man with no hair!”

• audience
• observer
• crowd

• spect-actor
• spectate
• spectatorship

• attercops, catopters

Latin agent noun from perfect passive participle spectātus, from frequentative form spectō (“watch”), from speciō (“look at”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /spekˈtaː.tor/, [spɛkˈtaː.tɔr]

spectātor m (genitive spectātōris); third declension

1. spectator, watcher

Third declension.

• speciō
• spectō
• spectus

• spectator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spectator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spectator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • an astronomer: spectator siderum, rerum caelestium or astrologus