expectans
Dictionary entries
- Entry →expecto, expectare, expectavi, expectatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
await, expect; anticipate; hope for;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- T
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...I.ii LYDVS Iam dudum, Pistoclere, tacitus te sequor, expectans quas tu res hoc ornatu geras. namque..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...praeceptorum, alter laetus, hilaris, occasionem referendae gratiae expectans et ex hoc ipso adfectu gaudium grande percipiens nec quaerens..." - L
Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...crepuere malae, saxaque impatiens morae reuulsit unguis uiscera expectans mea; nodosa sortis uerba et implexos dolos ac triste..." 
Liber Sextus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...bella mouent; medio coniunx stat candida prato uictorem expectans, rumpunt obnixa furentes pectora, subdit amor stimulos et uulnera..."- M
In Catilinam IV
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...publica tamquam obsidem consulatus mei, neque ille, qui expectans huius exitum diei stat in conspectu meo, gener. Moveo..."