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spe

spe is a Latin form of spes, meaning “hope”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 851 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.5.3: frumentum omne, praeter quod secum portaturi erant, comburunt, ut domum reditionis spe sublata paratiores ad omnia pericula subeunda essent; trium mensum molita cibaria sibi quemque domo efferre i …

Ovid, Heroides 9.42: Speque timor dubia spesque timore cadit.

Plautus, Rudens 1.5.275: quae ín locis nésciis néscia spé sumus,

All forms of spes (declension 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.