exspectatus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of exspectō (“expect”).

Participle

exspectātus (feminine exspectāta, neuter exspectātum); first/second-declension participle

1. awaited, waited for, longed for; having been awaited, etc.
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.282–283:

     “‘[...] Quibus Hector ab ōrīs / exspectāte venīs? [...].’”

     “‘Longed-for Hector, from what shores have you come?’”

2. expected, having been expected

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	exspectātus	exspectāta	exspectātum		exspectātī	exspectātae	exspectāta
genitive	exspectātī	exspectātae	exspectātī		exspectātōrum	exspectātārum	exspectātōrum
dative	exspectātō	exspectātae	exspectātō		exspectātīs
accusative	exspectātum	exspectātam	exspectātum		exspectātōs	exspectātās	exspectāta
ablative	exspectātō	exspectātā	exspectātō		exspectātīs
vocative	exspectāte	exspectāta	exspectātum		exspectātī	exspectātae	exspectāta

References

• “exspectatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exspectatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exspectatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.