expectatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Latin spectō

Latin expecto

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin expectātiō

From expecto + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛk.spɛkˈtaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ek.spekˈtat.t͡si.o]

Noun

expectātiō f (genitive expectātiōnis); third declension

1. expectation
2. suspense
3. wait

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	expectātiō	expectātiōnēs
genitive	expectātiōnis	expectātiōnum
dative	expectātiōnī	expectātiōnibus
accusative	expectātiōnem	expectātiōnēs
ablative	expectātiōne	expectātiōnibus
vocative	expectātiō	expectātiōnēs

References

• “expectatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “expectatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "expectatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “expectatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.