specere

Driven by "wordly" - curiosity (etymology), in reference to the word "speculator," - I found the word "speculum" - (the device used to widen a patient's anus so a proctologist can have a look around in a usually private area), and the word "speculator" - have the same Latin root word specere, to look at or to view.

The Free Market; or Forever Blowing Bubbles 2008

Compounds of _specere_ (the simple verb is used by Plautus and Ennius) are peculiarly liable to confusion: _prospicere_ is similarly corrupted to _aspicere_ in some manuscripts at _Met_ III 603-4 'ipse quid aura mihi tumulo promittat ab alto/_prospicio_' and _Met_ XI 715-16 'notata locis reminiscitur acta fretumque/_prospicit_', and other instances of variation of prefix will be found at _Met_ II 405, VI 343, XI 150, XIV

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Etymology: Latin speculatus, past participle of speculari to spy out, examine, from specula lookout post, from specere to look, look at - more at spy

Larval Subjects . 2009