expect

Significado

1. To predict or believe that something will happen
2. To consider obligatory or required.
3. To consider reasonably due.
4. To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
5. (obsolete) To wait for; to await.
6. (obsolete) To wait; to stay.

Guionizado como

ex‧pect

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɪkˈspɛkt/

Etimoloxía

From Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spectō (“look at”), frequentative of speciō (“see”).