different between suspect vs reckon

English

Etymology

From Old French suspect, from Latin suspectus, perfect passive participle of suspici? (“mistrust, suspect”), from sub (“under”), + speci? (“watch, look at”).

Pronunciation

Adjective, noun

• enPR: s?s?p?kt, IPA^(key): /?s?s.p?kt/

Verb

• enPR: s?s.p?kt?, IPA^(key): /s?s?p?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

suspect (third-person singular simple present suspects, present participle suspecting, simple past and past participle suspected)

1. (transitive) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
2. (transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).

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3. (transitive) To believe (someone) to be guilty.

4. (intransitive) To have suspicion.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To look up to; to respect.

Synonyms

• (imagine or suppose to be true): imagine, suppose, think
• (distrust, have doubts about): distrust, doubt
• (believe to be guilty): accuse, point the finger at

Translations

Noun

suspect (plural suspects)

1. A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
   • 1942, Casablanca, written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch

     Round up the usual suspects.

Derived terms

• suspectless

Translations

Adjective

suspect (comparative more suspect, superlative most suspect)

1. Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
   • In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
2. (nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.
   • 2004, Will Nickell, letter to the editor of Field & Stream, Volume CIX Number 8 (December 2004–January 2005), page 18

     Now I’m suspect of other advice that I read in your pages.

Synonyms

• (viewed with suspicion): dodgy (informal), doubtful, dubious, fishy (informal), suspicious

Translations

Related terms

• suspicion
• suspicious

Anagrams

• cupsets, suscept

French

Etymology

Latin suspectus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sys.p?/

Adjective

suspect (feminine singular suspecte, masculine plural suspects, feminine plural suspectes)

1. suspicious; suspect

Derived terms

• suspectement

Usage notes

• The -ct- becomes audible in the feminine forms (as [kt]). It is one of very few adjectives in which two mute consonants reappear.

Noun

suspect m (plural suspects, feminine suspecte)

1. a suspect

Further reading

• “suspect” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French suspect, from Latin suspectus.

Adjective

suspect m or n (feminine singular suspect?, masculine plural suspec?i, feminine and neuter plural suspecte)

1. suspicious, doubtful

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• reckin (dialectal)
• recken (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English rekenen, from Old English recenian (“to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”) and ?erecenian (“to explain, recount, relate”); both from Proto-Germanic *rekan?n? (“to count, explain”), from Proto-Germanic *rekanaz (“swift, ready, prompt”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?re?- (“to make straight or right”).

Cognate with Scots rekkin (“to ennumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute”), Saterland Frisian reekenje (“to calculate, figure, reckon”), West Frisian rekkenje (“to account, tally, calculate, figure”), Dutch rekenen (“to count, calculate, reckon”), German Low German reken (“to reckon”), German rechnen (“to count, reckon, calculate”), Swedish räkna (“to count, calculate, reckon”), Icelandic reikna (“to calculate”), Latin rectus (“straight, right”). See also reck, reach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?n/
• Rhymes: -?k?n

Verb

reckon (third-person singular simple present reckons, present participle reckoning, simple past and past participle reckoned)

1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
   • I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.
2. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
   • 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes

     For him I reckon not in high estate Whom long descent of birth, Or the sphere of fortune, raises

3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
   • 1611, King James Version, Romans 4:9

     […] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

   • Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.

4. (colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause

   I reckon he won't try that again.

   • 1611, King James Version, Romans 8:18

     For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

   • 1611, King James Version, Romans 6:11

     Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin.
5. To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
6. (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
7. To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

   • Parfay," sayst thou, sometime he reken shall."

Synonyms

• number
• enumerate
• compute
• calculate
• estimate
• value
• esteem
• account
• repute

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• calculate
• guess

References

• reckon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• conker, rocken