esperar
Catalan
verb
Definitions
- to wait, wait for, await
- to hope
- to expect
Etymology
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
- esperar Spanish, Castilian
- *(s)pew- Proto-Indo-European
- *speh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *spewd- Proto-Indo-European
- *spōaną Proto-Germanic
- esperer Old French
- desesperació Catalan, Valencian
- desesperar Catalan, Valencian
- esperança Catalan, Valencian
- shpresoj Albanian
- *spōdi gmw-pro
- esperar Old Portuguese
- esperar Occitan
- *prosparos Proto-Italic
- esperar Asturian
- sperâ Friulian
- esperanssa Old Occitan
- sperar Venetian
- sperar Mirandese