Etymology

From *cōnspiculum + -lumCategory:Latin terms suffixed with -lus#CONSPICILLUM, from cōnspiciō +‎ -ulum (forming instrument nouns)Category:Latin terms suffixed with -ulum#CONSPICILLUM. Compare specillum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõː.spɪˈkɪl.lũː]Category:Latin 4-syllable words#CONSPICILLUMCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#CONSPICILLUM
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon.spiˈt͡ʃil.lum]Category:Latin 4-syllable words#CONSPICILLUMCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#CONSPICILLUM

Noun

cōnspicillum n (genitive cōnspicillī)Category:Latin lemmas#CONSPICILLUMCategory:Latin nouns#CONSPICILLUMCategory:Latin second declension nouns#CONSPICILLUMCategory:Latin neuter nouns in the second declension#CONSPICILLUMCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#CONSPICILLUMCategory:Latin neuter nouns#CONSPICILLUMCategory:Pages with entries#CONSPICILLUMCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CONSPICILLUM; second declension (PlautineCategory:Plautine Latin#CONSPICILLUM, hapax legomenonCategory:Latin hapax legomena#CONSPICILLUM)

1. a place to look from, a look out
   • c. 203 BCE, Plautus, Cistellaria 1.1.88–89:

     Dum redeo domum,
     conspicillo consecutust clanculum me usque ad fores.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     Category:Latin terms with quotations#CONSPICILLUMCategory:Requests for translations of Latin quotations#CONSPICILLUM

Further reading

• “conspicillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conspicillum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.