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English word spect comes from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-, and later Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti (To be looking at, to keep looking at.)
*speḱ- (Proto-Indo-European)
to look
*spéḱyeti (Proto-Indo-European)
To be looking at, to keep looking at.
*spekjō (Proto-Italic)
To observe, to see.
specto (Latin)
I consider. I test. I watch, observe, look at, see.
exspecto (Latin)
I expect. I wait for.
expect (English)
(continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.. (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.. To consider obligatory or required.. To consider reasonably due.. To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, [...]
spect (English)
(colloquial) expect.