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speret

speret is a Latin form of spero, meaning “hope”. It is the 3rd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.8: … tudium et iracundiam suam rei publicae dimittere neque adeo graviter irasci inimicis, ut, cum illis nocere se speret, rei publicae noceat. Pauca eiusdem generis addit cum excusatione Pompei coniuncta. Eadem fere atque eisdem v …

Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.748: Speret, et e medio flumine mella petat.

All forms of spero (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.