The story
- Latin · derived fromspectāculum“a show, spectacle”
- Middle French · derived fromspectacle
- Middle English · inherited fromspectacle
- English todayspectacle
From Middle English spectacle, from Middle French spectacle, from Latin spectāculum (“a show, spectacle”), from spectō (“to see, behold”), frequentative of speciō (“to see”). See species. Doublet of spectaculum.
Words from the same roots
Latinspectāculum all →
spectacularspectaculum
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.