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What is the origin of the word speculation?

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There is a middle English word 'speculacioun' dated 1325/1370 taken from the late Latin 'speculatus'. The general meaning was to 'watch over or to explore'. This would have derived from the Latin word 'specula' meaning a watch tower in the sense of having to look for something

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