inspectio

Latin

Etymology

From īnspiciō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

īnspectiō f (genitive īnspectiōnis); third declension

1. inspection, examination
2. consideration, investigation, contemplation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	īnspectiō	īnspectiōnēs
genitive	īnspectiōnis	īnspectiōnum
dative	īnspectiōnī	īnspectiōnibus
accusative	īnspectiōnem	īnspectiōnēs
ablative	īnspectiōne	īnspectiōnibus
vocative	īnspectiō	īnspectiōnēs

Descendants

• French: inspection
• Italian: ispezione
• Portuguese: inspeção
• Romanian: inspecție
• Russian: инспекция (inspekcija)
• Spanish: inspección

References

• “inspectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inspectio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.