spero
Italian
editPronunciation
editVerb
editspero
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom Old Latin *spēsō = spēs + -ō.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈspeː.roː/, [ˈs̠peːroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspe.ro/, [ˈspɛːro]
Verb
editspērō (present infinitive spērāre, perfect active spērāvī, supine spērātum); first conjugation
- to hope, expect
- Synonym: exspectō
- Spero ut pacem habeant semper ― I hope that they may always have peace.
- to await, anticipate
- to fear, be apprehensive
- to assume, suppose
Conjugation
edit1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings: (conlangs prob. borrowed from Romance instead)
References
edit- “spero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- he is a young man of great promise: adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt
- I flatter myself with the hope..: sperare videor
- to hope well of a person: bene, optime (meliora) sperare de aliquo (Nep. Milt. 1. 1)
- he is a young man of great promise: adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 580
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