spēro — Lewis & Short
To hope
The corpus record — Latin
spero
spero · v. a
To hope
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Distribution
- Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 1 · 51.55/10k
- Epistularum 2 · 25/10k
- Hamilcar 1 · 19.34/10k
- Ordo Urbium Nobilium 2 · 19.12/10k
- Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 2 · 15.42/10k
- Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
- Otho 2 · 12.68/10k
- Didius Julianus 2 · 12.58/10k
- Epistulae ad Familiares 145 · 12.46/10k
- Opilius Macrinus 3 · 12.05/10k
- Diadumenus Antoninus 2 · 11.98/10k
- Divus Aurelianus 9 · 11.52/10k
Densest 12 of 218 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
Attestations
- sperabatur Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.7.5
- sperare Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.4.8
- sperans Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.5
- speratur Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.9
- speratum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.6.1
- sperabatur Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.13.1
6 of 1,401 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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