spec-, spic-, spect-, spectat-, spectro- -spectr, -spectful, -spection, -spective (Latin: see, look; sight, appear; behold, examine)
specification
specify
specimen
specious
speciously
spectacle
spectacles
spectacular
spectacularly
spectator
Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae.
They come to see, they come that they themselves be seen.
Also, "They wish as much to be seen as to see." A statement made by Ovid in his Ars Amatoria, making it apparent that people have not changed much since Roman times. specter
spectral
spectrally
spectrocolorimeter
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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