exspes

Latin

Etymology

ex- +‎ spēs (“hope”)

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

exspēs (indeclinable)

1. without hope, hopeless, despairing

Declension

Only occurs in the nominative singular.

References

• “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