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spectare
Latin · ancient
"to watch"
to watch, frequentative of specere (to look)
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spectator
Latin · ancient
"one who watches"
one who watches, from spectare
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spectator
English · 1580s
"a person who watches an event"
settled as the English word for a person who watches an event
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