Word Origin Summary

Suspect is attested in English. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. suspectusLatinderived from
2. suspectFrenchderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• suspekti

  Esperanto · derived from

• suspek

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• suspetsado

  Cebuano · borrowed from

• suspek

  Cebuano · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root