speculatio

Latin

Etymology

From speculor +‎ -tiō.

Noun

speculātiō f (genitive speculātiōnis); third declension

1. watching, spying
2. inspection, scrutiny
3. consideration
4. speculation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	speculātiō	speculātiōnēs
Genitive	speculātiōnis	speculātiōnum
Dative	speculātiōnī	speculātiōnibus
Accusative	speculātiōnem	speculātiōnēs
Ablative	speculātiōne	speculātiōnibus
Vocative	speculātiō	speculātiōnēs

Related terms

• speciō

Descendants

• Catalan: especulació
• English: speculation
• French: spéculation
• Galician: especulación
• Italian: speculazione
• Portuguese: especulação
• Romanian: speculație
• Russian: спекуля́ция (spekuljácija)
• Spanish: especulación

References

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