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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *swespats, a Proto-Italic (but post-PIE) compound consisting of an element from *swé and spes.
Pronunciation
Adjective
sospes (genitive sospitis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- saving, delivering
- safe and sound, unharmed
- Synonyms: saluber, salvus, sanus, integer, intactus, validus, incolumis, sollus, innoxius
- Antonyms: aeger, īnfirmus, languidus
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “sospes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sospes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sospes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sospes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN