spectator

• spectatour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin spectātor, from frequentative verb spectō (“watch”), from speciō (“look at”). Equivalent to spectate +‎ -or. Doublet of speculator.

• (UK) enPR: spĕk.tāʹtə, IPA^(key): /spɛkˈteɪtə/
• (US) enPR: spĕkʹtā.tər, IPA^(key): /ˈspɛkteɪtɚ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

spectator (plural spectators)

1. One who watches an event; especially, an event held outdoors.

   The cheering spectators watched the fireworks.

   • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     Bart spies an opportunity to make a quick buck so he channels his inner carny and posits his sinking house as a natural wonder of the world and its inhabitants as freaks, barking to dazzled spectators, “Behold the horrors of the Slanty Shanty! See the twisted creatures that dwell within! Meet Cue-Ball, the man with no hair!”

2. One who observers, sees, or views something; an observer.
   • 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v:

     The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator.

• audience
• observer
• crowd

• spect-actor
• spectate
• spectator chair
• spectatorship
• spectator ion
• spectator ligand
• spectator sport

• attercops, caprettos, catopters

From spectō (“watch”) +‎ -tor, from speciō (“look at”). Doublet of speculator.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /spekˈtaː.tor/, [s̠pɛkˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /spekˈta.tor/, [spekˈt̪äːt̪or]

spectātor m (genitive spectātōris); third declension

1. spectator, watcher
2. examiner, judge, critic

   Synonyms: arbiter, iūdex, disceptātor

Third-declension noun.

• speciō
• spectō
• spectus

• “spectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “spectator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spectator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • an astronomer: spectator siderum, rerum caelestium or astrologus
    

Borrowed from French spectateur, from Latin spectator.

spectator m (plural spectatori)

1. spectator