spero
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛro
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to prosper, to turn out well”), (compare Hittite [script needed] (išpai), Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬆𐬥𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬙- (spənuuat-), Sanskrit स्फायते (sphā́yate, “to grow fast”), Lithuanian spėti, Old Church Slavonic спѣти (spěti), Tocharian A spāw- (“to subside, run dry”)), English speed. Some make this the same root as Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to stretch, to pull”), whence pēnūria, spatium, Ancient Greek σπάω (spáō), πένομαι (pénomai), πένης (pénēs), πόνος (pónos), πεῖνα (peîna), σπάνις (spánis), English span.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈspeː.roː/
Verb
spērō (present infinitive spērāre, perfect active spērāvī, supine spērātum); first conjugation
- I hope, expect
- Spero ut pacem habeant semper
- I hope that they may always have peace.
- Spero ut pacem habeant semper
- I await, anticipate
- I fear, am apprehensive
- I assume, suppose
Inflection
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Related terms
Descendants
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, 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
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