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• (Classical Latin) IPA: [asˈpɛk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [asˈpɛk.tus]

語源 1

Perfect passive participle of aspiciō (“behold, see; catch sight of”).

Participle

aspectus (feminine aspecta, neuter aspectum); first/second-declension participle

1. looked at, beheld, having been looked at
2. caught sight of, noticed, having been noticed
3. surveyed, inspected, having been inspected

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

語源 2

From aspiciō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

名詞

aspectus m (genitive aspectūs); fourth declension

1. the act of seeing or looking at something; look, sight, vision, view
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.17:

     Et, sī mē meīs cīvibus iniūria suspectum tam graviter atque offēnsum vidērem, carēre mē aspectū cīvium quam īnfēstīs omnium oculīs cōnspicī māllem; tū cum cōnscientiā scelerum tuōrum agnōscās odium omnium — iūstum et iam diū tibi dēbitum — dubitās, quōrum mentēs sēnsūsque vulnerās, eōrum aspectum praesentiamque vītāre?

     And, if I saw myself unjustly suspected and so seriously hated by my citizens, I would prefer to be out of sight of the citizens than to be viewed by the hostile eyes of all. [But] you, since with awareness of your own crimes you acknowledge the hatred of all — [hatred that is] just and already long owed to you — do you hesitate, for those whose minds and feelings you have wounded, to avoid their sight and presence?
     (Infinitive carere + ablative of separation aspectū; infinitive vitare + direct object aspectum.)

2. sense of sight

   Synonym: vīsus

   Coordinate terms: audītus / audītiō, gustātus, tāctus, odōrātus

3. visibility, appearance, vision; aspect, presence, mien, countenance; form; color
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.279–280:

     At vērō Aenēās aspectū obmūtuit āmēns,
     arrēctaeque horrōre comae, et vōx faucibus haesit.

     But in truth Aeneas, bewildered by the vision, was struck speechless. His hair stood bristling, and his voice was caught in his throat.
     (Mercury had appeared suddenly to Aeneas; the god spoke, and vanished.)

語形変化

Fourth-declension noun.

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参照

• “aspectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aspectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “aspectus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the city is very beautifully situated: urbs situ ad aspectum praeclara est
    
  • to keep out of a person's sight: fugere alicuius conspectum, aspectum
    
  • to take in everything at a glance: omnia uno aspectu, conspectu intueri
    
  • to come within the sphere of the senses: sub sensum or sub oculos, sub aspectum cadere
    
  • to represent a thing vividly: oculis or sub oculos, sub aspectum subicere aliquid
    
  • graphic depiction: rerum sub aspectum paene subiectio (De Or. 3. 53. 202)
    
  • to give a general idea of a thing: sub unum aspectum subicere aliquid