Significatio vocis spes | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. hope (belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen)
   declension-5
2. expectation, anticipation
   declension-5, rare
3. apprehension
   declension-5, rare

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Dum anima est, spēs est.”

As long as there is life, there is hope.

“Ego spem pretiō nōn emō!”

I don’t buy hope at any price! (In other words, purchase nothing more than an expectation.)

“ab initio⟳ Faustulo spes fuerat regiam stirpem apud se educari”

From the beginning there was an expectation for Faustulus that he was bringing up the children of the royal blood

Gradus CEFR