exspecto

• expectō

From ex- (“out”) +‎ spectō (“to look at”), frequentative of speciō (“to see”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛks(ː)pɛk.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eksˈspɛk.t̪o]

exspectō (present infinitive exspectāre, perfect active exspectāvī, supine exspectātum); first conjugation

1. to wait for, await

   Synonyms: opperior, maneō

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 34:

     Exspectō quid velīs.

     I am waiting: what is it you want?, or, I await your pleasure (what you wish).

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.429–430:

     “Quō ruit? Extrēmum hoc miserae det mūnus amantī:
     exspectet facilemque fugam ventōsque ferentīs.”

     “Where is he hurrying? Let him grant this final favor to a wretched lover: May he wait for fair winds and an easier flight.”
     (Dido gives Anna the petition to Aeneas using the third-person jussive subjunctive: det, exspectet.)

2. to look for, expect

   Synonym: spērō

3. to have need of, require

   Synonyms: requīrō, egeō

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• exspectātiō

• >? Galician: espeitar
• Italian: aspettare
• Neapolitan: aspettare
• Sicilian: aspittari
• → English: expect
• →⇒ French: expectative
• → Portuguese: expectar
• → Spanish: expectar

• “exspecto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exspecto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exspecto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be waiting in suspense for..: suspenso animo exspectare aliquid
    
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “expect”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.