expect
(Inglés)
- (ambitransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
- To consider obligatory or required.
- To consider reasonably due.
- To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
- (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To wait; to stay.
Frecuencia
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/ɪkˈspɛkt/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)
From Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spectō (“look at”), frequentative of speciō (“see”).
Related words
hope for
look out for
wish for
look forward
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