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expectat

expectat is a Latin form of exspecto, meaning “wait for, expect”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 56 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.62: … nit et praesentibus ita potitur, ut animadvertat quanta sint ea quamque iucunda, neque pendet ex futuris, sed expectat illa, fruitur praesentibus ab iisque vitiis, quae paulo ante collegi, abest plurimum et, cum stultorum vitam …

Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.708: Expectat siquis, dum prior illa roget.

All forms of exspecto (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.