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spero

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See also: Spero and sperò

Italian

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Pronunciation

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

Verb

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spero

  1. first-person singular present indicative of sperare

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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    From Old Latin *spēsō = spēs +‎ .

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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

    1. to hope, expect
      Synonym: exspectō
      Spero ut pacem habeant semperI hope that they may 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

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

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    Descendants

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    References

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    • 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
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