early 17th century (earlier (late Middle English) as inspection): from Latin inspect- ‘looked into, examined’, from the verb inspicere (from in- ‘in’ + specere ‘look at’), or from its frequentative, inspectare
17世紀初頭(それ以前は中世英語後期のinspection):ラテン語のinspect-「調べる、調べる」から、動詞inspicere(in-「で」+ specere「見る」から)、またはその頻用語inspectareに由来。