spectator

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EnglishEdit

A group of spectators at a rowing event.

Alternative formsEdit

• spectatour (obsolete)

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

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NounEdit

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^[1]:

     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!”

Derived termsEdit

• spectate
• spectatorship

SynonymsEdit

• audience
• observer
• crowd

TranslationsEdit

observer

• Armenian: հանդիսական (hy) (handisakan), հանդիսատես (hy) (handisates), ականատես (hy) (akanates), դիտող (hy) (ditoł)
• Basque: ikusle (eu)
• Catalan: espectador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旁觀者 (zh), 旁观者 (zh) (pángguānzhě), 觀眾 (zh), 观众 (zh) (guānzhòng) (spectators, audience)

• Czech: divák (cs) m
• Dutch: toeschouwer (nl) m
• Esperanto: spektanto
• Estonian: pealtvaataja (et)
• Finnish: katsoja (fi), sivustakatsoja
• French: spectateur (fr) m, spectatrice (fr) f, badaud (fr) m, badaude (fr) f
• Galician: espectador (gl) m
• German: Zuschauer (de) m, Zuschauerin (de) f, Schaulustiger (de) m
• Greek: θεατής (el) m (theatís)
• Hungarian: megfigyelő (hu), nézelődő, néző (hu)
• Ido: spektanto (io)

• Italian: spettatore (it)
• Japanese: 観客 (かんきゃく, kankyaku), 見物人 (ja) (けんぶつにん, kenbutsunin), 傍観者 (ぼうかんしゃ, bōkansha)
• Macedonian: посматрач m (pósmatrač), гледач m (glédač)
• Maori: kaimātakitaki
• Norman: spectateur m
• Norwegian: tilskuer f
• Polish: widz (pl) m
• Portuguese: espectador (pt)
• Romanian: spectator (ro) m, privitor (ro) m, martor ocular m
• Russian: зри́тель (ru) m (zrítelʹ), зри́тельница (ru) f (zrítelʹnica), наблюда́тель (ru) m (nabljudátelʹ), наблюда́тельница (ru) f (nabljudátelʹnica), зева́ка (ru) m, f (zeváka) (rubberneck)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: посматрач m, гледалац m, гледатељ m

  Roman: posmatrač (sh) m, gledalac (sh) m, gledatelj (sh) m

• Spanish: espectador (es)
• Swahili: mshabiki (sw)
• Swedish: åskådare (sv)

AnagramsEdit

• attercops, catopters

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

spectātor m (genitive spectātōris); third declension

1. spectator, watcher

InflectionEdit

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	spectātor	spectātōrēs
genitive	spectātōris	spectātōrum
dative	spectātōrī	spectātōribus
accusative	spectātōrem	spectātōrēs
ablative	spectātōre	spectātōribus
vocative	spectātor	spectātōrēs

Related termsEdit

• speciō
• spectō
• spectus

DescendantsEdit

• English: spectator
• French: spectateur
• Italian: spettatore

• Norman: spectateur
• Spanish: espectador

ReferencesEdit

• 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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • an astronomer: spectator siderum, rerum caelestium or astrologus