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Spect Latin Verb Specere Meaning Produces Familiar English

word SPECT
meaning SPECT comes from the Latin verb specere, meaning “to look at,” and produces several familiar English words. Spectacles can be glasses that you look through; but a spectacle can also be a remarkable sight—in Roman times, perhaps a spectacular chariot race or a spectacularly bloody battle between gladiators and wild beasts, mounted for the pleasure of its spectators.

Tags: mwvb::root, mwvb::unit:7, mwvb::unit:7:root, obsidian_to_anki

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