different between spectator vs hyoshigi

English

Alternative forms

• spectatour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin spect?tor, from frequentative verb spect? (“watch”), from speci? (“look at”). Equivalent to spectate +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: sp?k.t??t?, IPA^(key): /sp?k?te?t?/
• (US) enPR: sp?k?t?.t?r, IPA^(key): /?sp?kte?t?/

Noun

spectator (plural spectators)

1. One who watches an event; especially, an event held outdoors.

Synonyms

• audience
• observer
• crowd

Derived terms

• spect-actor
• spectate
• spectatorship

Translations

Anagrams

• attercops, caprettos, catopters

Latin

Etymology

Latin agent noun from perfect passive participle spect?tus, from frequentative form spect? (“watch”), from speci? (“look at”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /spek?ta?.tor/, [s?p?k?t?ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /spek?ta.tor/, [sp?k?t???t??r]

Noun

spect?tor m (genitive spect?t?ris); third declension

1. spectator, watcher

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• speci?
• spect?
• spectus

Descendants

References

• spectator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spectator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spectator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Romanian

Etymology

From French spectateur, from Latin spectator.

Noun

spectator m (plural spectatori)

1. spectator

Declension

English

Etymology

From Japanese ???.

Noun

hyoshigi (plural hyoshigi)

1. (sumo) One of the wooden sticks that are clapped by the yobidashi to draw the spectator's attention.
   • 1978, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea, Vintage 1999, p. 247:

     I put the glasses down and found that my heart was beating fast, thumping with an accelerating sound like that of the hyoshigi which I had last heard in that sombre vaporous gallery in the Wallace Collection.