prospect

prospect · noun, verb¹

1. Russian · semantic loan fromпроспе́кт
2. Latin · derived fromprōspectus“view, sight, prospect; panorama”
3. Middle English · inherited fromprospecte
4. English todayprospect

From Middle English prospecte, from Latin prōspectus (“view, sight, prospect; panorama”), from prōspiciō (“to look forward”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns), from pro (“before, forward”) + speciō, spiciō (“to look, to see”). By surface analysis, pro- + -spect. Doublet of prospectus and prospekt. Etymology 1, noun sense 11 is a semantic loan from Russian проспе́кт (prospékt). The verb is from the noun.

prospect · verb²

1. Latin · learned borrowing fromprōspectō
2. English todayprospect

Learned borrowing from Latin prōspectō.

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