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perspicere
Latin · ancient
"to look through, to see clearly"
to look through, to see clearly, from per- (through) and specere (to look)
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perspectiva
Medieval Latin · medieval
"the science of optics"
the science of optics, from perspicere
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perspective
English · 1400s
"a particular way of viewing or considering things"
settled as the English word for a particular way of viewing things
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