exspectatio

Latin

Etymology

exspectō +‎ -tiō

Noun

exspectātiō f (genitive exspectātiōnis); third declension

1. expectation, waiting
2. suspense

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	exspectātiō	exspectātiōnēs
Genitive	exspectātiōnis	exspectātiōnum
Dative	exspectātiōnī	exspectātiōnibus
Accusative	exspectātiōnem	exspectātiōnēs
Ablative	exspectātiōne	exspectātiōnibus
Vocative	exspectātiō	exspectātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: expectation
• Italian: espettazione
• Spanish: expectación

References

• “exspectatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exspectatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exspectatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • we expect a great deal from a man of your calibre: magna est exspectatio ingenii tui
    
  • contrary to expectation: praeter spem, exspectationem
    
  • to cause oneself to be expected: exspectationem sui facere, commovere
    
  • to fulfil expectation: exspectationem explere (De Or. 1. 47. 205)
    
  • to respond to expectations: exspectationi satisfacere, respondere
    
  • to be in suspense, waiting for a thing: exspectatione alicuius rei pendēre (animi) (Leg. Agr. 2. 25. 66)
    
  • to suffer torments of expectation, delay: exspectatione torqueri, cruciari
    
  • to rouse a person's expectation, curiosity to the highest pitch: aliquem in summam exspectationem adducere (Tusc. 1. 17. 39)