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Latin
Etymology
exspectō + -tiō
Noun
exspectātiō f (genitive exspectātiōnis); third declension
- expectation, waiting
- suspense
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “exspectatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exspectatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exspectatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- we expect a great deal from a man of your calibre: magna est exspectatio ingenii tui
- contrary to expectation: praeter spem, exspectationem
- to cause oneself to be expected: exspectationem sui facere, commovere
- to fulfil expectation: exspectationem explere (De Or. 1. 47. 205)
- to respond to expectations: exspectationi satisfacere, respondere
- to be in suspense, waiting for a thing: exspectatione alicuius rei pendēre (animi) (Leg. Agr. 2. 25. 66)
- to suffer torments of expectation, delay: exspectatione torqueri, cruciari
- to rouse a person's expectation, curiosity to the highest pitch: aliquem in summam exspectationem adducere (Tusc. 1. 17. 39)