To look is spectare; to see is videre.
Spectare gives us the root "spect" as in such words as respect, inspect, spectacle, spectator.
Videre gives us not only "vid" as in video and provide, but also, from its past participle visus, the root "vis" as in visual and revise.
The Latin root meaning "see" or "look" is "videre."
Latin Root: -spec (to look, see)
spect is the root word of suspect. It means to look or see.
If you are thinking "scop" as in the root in words like "endoscopy", it's Greek, not Latin. Probably from skopeo = look for
scope is the latin root that means 'to see'
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The Latin root to turn is vertere.We see it in words such as divert, convert, revert ... and also verse and aversion.
The Latin root for the word "obviously" is "obvius," which means "in the way" or "easy to see."
"See" is an English equivalent of the Latin root vis-. It also serves as the translation of the alternate Latin root vid-. The pronunciation will be "wihs" in Church and classical Latin.
I don't believe it has a word it is based on, (i.e. perspect is not a word) however the roots in it come from are latin per-through and specere-look/look at
The root word for "vista" is "videre," which is Latin for "to see."