spes

== Aromanian == === Alternative forms === spesu === Etymology === From Latin spissus. Compare Italian spesso. === Adjective === spes m (feminine singular speasã, masculine plural spesh, feminine plural speasi or spease) thick ==== Synonyms ==== des picnos == Icelandic == === Adjective === spes (indeclinable) special, often in an odd way == Latin == === Alternative forms === ispes (African Romance) === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *spēs, from Proto-Indo-European *spéh₁s (“prosperity”), from *speh₁- (“to succeed, prosper”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈspeːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈspɛs] === Noun === spēs f (genitive speī); fifth declension hope (belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen) Dum anima est, spēs est. ― As long as there is life, there is hope. (rare) expectation, anticipation (rare) apprehension ==== Declension ==== Fifth-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== exspēs spēcula ==== Related terms ==== spērō ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “spes”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray spes, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011