esperar
Portuguese
/ɨʃ.pɨ.ˈɾaɾ/, /is.pe.ˈɾa(ʁ)/
verb
Definitions
- to wait
- to hope
- to expect; to anticipate to know or think that something will happen
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese esperar 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
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Cognates and derived terms
- Esperanto English
- desperare, despero Latin
- fulcīō Latin
- spatium Latin
- spero Latin
- spērāre Latin
- spērō, spērāre, spero Latin
- sperare Italian
- esperanza Spanish, Castilian
- esperar Spanish, Castilian
- *(s)pew- Proto-Indo-European
- *speh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *spewd- Proto-Indo-European
- desesperançado Portuguese
- desesperar Portuguese
- desesperação Portuguese
- esperança Portuguese
- *spōaną Proto-Germanic
- esperer Old French
- esperar Catalan, Valencian
- esperar Galician
- shpresoj Albanian
- *spōdi gmw-pro
- esperança Old Portuguese
- esperar Old Portuguese
- esperar Occitan
- *prosparos Proto-Italic
- esperar Asturian
- sperâ Friulian
- sperar Venetian
- speransa Papiamentu
- sperar Mirandese