exspes

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

ex- +‎ spēs (“hope”)

Pronunciation[edit]

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈek.speːs/, [ˈɛks̠peːs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈek.spes/, [ˈɛkspes]

Adjective[edit]

exspēs (indeclinable)

without hope, hopeless, despairing

Declension[edit]

Only occurs in the nominative singular.

References[edit]

“exspes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“exspes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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