spes

• spesu

From Latin spissus. Compare Italian spesso.

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

1. thick

• des
• picnos

spes (indeclinable)

1. special, often in an odd way

   Vinkona þín var svakalega spes.

   Your friend was really special.

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /speːs/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /spes/,

spēs f (genitive speī); fifth declension

1. 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.

2. expectation, anticipation, apprehension (act or state of looking forward to an event as about to happen)
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.5:

     ab initio Faustulo spes fuerat regiam stirpem apud se educari

     From the beginning there was an expectation for Faustulus that he was bringing up the children of the royal blood

Fifth-declension noun.

• exspēs
• spēcula

• spērō

• Italian: spene, speme (the latter infl. by Latin)
• → Dutch: in spe
• → German: in spe

• “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 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, 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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray