expectar

Meaning

  1. (literary) to wait
  2. to expect

Hyphenated as
ex‧pec‧tar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/eɡspeɡˈtaɾ/
Etymology

Borrowed from Latin expectāre, variant of exspectō (“to wait”). Alternatively, possible backformation from expectante interpreted as a present participle, influenced as well by expectación and expectativa.

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