inspector

• inspectour (obsolete, rare)

From Latin īnspector, from īnspiciō.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈspɛktə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈspɛktɚ/

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inspector (plural inspectors)

1. A person employed to inspect something.
   • 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:

     Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. […] There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]

2. (law enforcement) A police officer ranking below superintendent.
3. (computing) A software tool used to examine something.
   • 2011, Adam McDaniel, HTML5 (page 166)

     Chrome has a built-in development tool called the Chrome Inspector. You can use it to examine the HTML elements in a web page; review what resources — or files, cookies, and databases — are active; follow network activity; […]

   • 2020, Anatoly Belous, ‎Vitali Saladukha, Viruses, Hardware and Software Trojans (page 112)

     After that, with the help of the disk inspector, you can at any time compare the status of programs and system disk areas with the original one.

• inspect
• inspection

• → Japanese: インスペクター (insupekutā)

• inceptors, proincest

From Latin īnspector, attested from 1803.[1]

inspector m (plural inspectors, feminine inspectora)

1. inspector

• inspecció

• “inspector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “inspector” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “inspector” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin īnspector.

inspector m (plural inspectores, feminine inspectora, feminine plural inspectoras)

1. inspector

• inspección

• “inspector” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

From īnspicio +‎ -tor.

īnspector m (genitive īnspectōris); third declension

1. (post-Augustan) viewer, observer, onlooker
2. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) inspector, examiner (especially one who inspects a household, monastery, etc)
3. (Medieval Latin) spy
4. (Medieval Latin, in divination) diviner

Third-declension noun.

īnspector

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of īnspectō

• “inspector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inspector in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• inspector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• inspector in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From Latin īnspector.

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inspector m (plural inspectors, feminine inspectritz, feminine plural inspectrises)

1. inspector

• inspeccion

Borrowed from Latin inspector, probably through French inspecteur. Compare Russian инспе́ктор (inspéktor).

• IPA^(key): /inˈspek.tor/

inspector m (plural inspectori, feminine equivalent inspectoare)

1. inspector

• inspicient (dated)

• inspector-șef

• inspecta
• inspectare
• inspectiv
• inspectorat
• inspecție, inspecțiune

• revizor
• supraveghetor

• inspector in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

From Latin īnspector.

• IPA^(key): /inspeɡˈtoɾ/ [ĩns.peɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ins‧pec‧tor

inspector m (plural inspectores, feminine inspectora, feminine plural inspectoras)

1. inspector

• inspección
• inspeccionar

• “inspector”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014