adjective
suspĭcax
Meaning
- apt to suspect
suspĭcax, ācis, adj. id.,
I. apt to suspect, distrustful, suspicious.
I. Lit. (very rare):
populus suspicax ob eamque rem mobilis, Nep. Timoth. 3, 5: frater, Liv. 40, 14: animus alicujus, Tac. A. 1, 13.—II. Transf., that excites mistrust, suspicious: silentium, Tac. A. 3, 11 fin.; Sen. Ira, 2, 29, 2 (dub.; bracketed by Haase).
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
suspicāx ācis, adj.
suspicor, distrustful, suspicious : populus, N.: frater, L.