Aromanian

Alternative forms

• spesu

Adjective

spes m ‎(feminine singular speasã, masculine plural spesh, feminine plural speasi or spease)

1. thick

Synonyms

• des
• picnos

Icelandic

Adjective

spes

1. special, often in an odd way

   Vinkona þín var svakalega spes.‎

   Your friend was really special.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *spēs, from Proto-Indo-European *spéh₁s ‎(“prosperity”), from *speh₁- ‎(“to succeed, prosper”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /speːs/

Noun

spēs f ‎(genitive speī); fifth declension

1. hope
2. expectation

Inflection

Fifth declension.

Derived terms

• spērō

References

• spes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SPES in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “spes”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
    
  • a promising youth: adulescens bonae (egregiae) spei
    
  • to cherish a hope: spem habere
    
  • to cherish a hope: spe duci, niti, teneri
    
  • I have great hopes that..: magna me spes tenet (with Acc. c. Inf.) (Tusc. 1. 41. 97)
    
  • to conceive a hope: in spem venire, ingredi, adduci
    
  • to conceive a hope: spem concipere animo
    
  • to revive a hope: spem redintegrare (B. G. 7. 25)
    
  • to inspire any one with hope: spem alicui facere, afferre, inicere
    
  • to awaken new hope in some one: ad spem aliquem excitare, erigere
    
  • to inspire some one with the most brilliant hopes: in maximam spem aliquem adducere (Att. 2. 22. 3)
    
  • to induce some one to take a brighter view of things: in meliorem spem, cogitationem aliquem inducere (Off. 2. 15. 53)
    
  • to lead some one to expect..: spem proponere alicui
    
  • a ray of hope shines on us: spes affulget (Liv. 27. 28)
    
  • to rouse a vain, groundless hope in some one's mind: spem falsam alicui ostendere
    
  • to deprive a person of hope: spem alicui adimere, tollere, auferre, eripere
    
  • to cut off all hope: spem praecīdere, incidere (Liv. 2. 15)
    
  • to lose hope: spem perdere
    
  • to lose hope: spe deici, depelli, deturbari
    
  • expectation is overthrown: spes ad irritum cadit, ad irritum redigitur
    
  • to give up hoping: spem abicere, deponere
    
  • to be misled by a vain hope: inani, falsa spe duci, induci
    
  • hope has played me false: spes me frustratur
    
  • hope is vanishing by degrees: spes extenuatur et evanescit
    
  • to deceive a person's hope: spem alicuius fallere (Catil. 4. 11. 23)
    
  • to weaken, diminish a person's hope: spem alicui or alicuius minuere
    
  • to strengthen a person in his hopes: spem alicuius confirmare
    
  • to entertain a hope: spem alere
    
  • to set one's hope on some one: spem habere in aliquo
    
  • to set one's hope on some one: spem suam ponere, collocare in aliquo
    
  • to hover between hope and fear: inter spem metumque suspensum animi esse
    
  • contrary to expectation: praeter spem, exspectationem
    
• spes in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spes in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill