spero

See also: Spero and sperò

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspɛ.ro/
  • Rhymes: -ɛro
  • Hyphenation: spè‧ro

Verb

spero

  1. first-person singular present indicative of sperare

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

    From Old Latin spēsō = spēs +‎ .

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    spērō (present infinitive spērāre, perfect active spērāvī, supine spērātum); first conjugation

    1. to hope, expect
      Synonym: exspectō
      Spērō fore ut pācem habeant semperI hope that they will always have peace.
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.305–6:
        dissimulare etiam sperasti, perfide, tantum posse nefas tacitusque mea decedere terra?
        Did you hope to even be able to conceal such a great wrong, treacherous man, and to leave my lands silently?
    2. to await, anticipate
    3. to fear, be apprehensive
    4. to assume, suppose

    Conjugation

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

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    References

    • 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)
    • 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