The story
- Latin · derived fromsuspīciō, suspīciōnem
- Middle English · inherited fromsuspecioun
- English todaysuspicion
From Middle English suspecioun, borrowed from Latin suspīciō, suspīciōnem, from suspicere, from sub- (“up to”) with specere (“to look at”). Perhaps partly through the influence of Old French sospeçon (or rather the Anglo-Norman form suspecioun). Equivalent to suspect + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.