spec-, spic-, spect-, spectat-, spectro- -spectr, -spectful, -spection, -spective (Latin: see, look; sight, appear; behold, examine)
retrospection
retrospective
retrospectively
Sapiens qui prospicit.
He is wise who looks ahead.
Motto of Malvern College, U.K. Si monumentum requiris, circumspice.
If you seek a monument, look around you.
An inscription on Sir Christopher Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England. Wren was the architect of the cathedral. Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice.
If you seek a pleasant [lovely] peninsula, look about you.
Motto of the State of Michigan, USA. special
specialist
specialization
specially
specialty
specie
species
specific
specifically
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "appear, visible, visual, manifest, show, see, reveal, look":
blep-;
delo-;
demonstra-;
opt-;
-orama;
pare-;
phanero-;
phant-;
pheno-;
scopo-;
vela-, veal-;
video-, visuo-.
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