spe

See also: SPE, spě, and in spe

Translingual

Symbol

spe

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Sepa (New Guinea).

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sepa (New Guinea) terms

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈspeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈspɛː]

Noun

spē f

1. ablative singular of spēs

Postposition

spē (+ genitive)

1. hoping that, in hope of, waiting for
   • 380 CE – 392 CE, Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 27.7.2:

     sed lucrandi opportunas occasiones occultationis spe numquam praetermittens

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

• almost always accompanied deverbal noun or a genitive gerund.

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish spe, from Middle Low German spē. Doublet of spy.

Noun

spe n

1. ridicule, derision

Derived terms

• spefull
• spefågel
• spott och spe

References

• “spe”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “spe”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “spe”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• spe in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Tocharian B

Adverb

spe

1. nearby