espérer

French

verb
Definitions
  • (intransitive) to hope
  • (transitive) to hope for
  • (intransitive) to have faith, to trust with m
  • (Louisiana French) (Normandy) to wait

Etymology

Inherited from Old French esperer inherited from Latin spērāre derived from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (prosper, turn out well, succeed, pull, stretch).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*speh₁-

Gloss

prosper, turn out well, succeed, pull, stretch

Concept
Semantic Field

Cognition

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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