sospes

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *swespats, a Proto-Italic (but post-PIE) compound consisting of an element from *swé and spes.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsos.pes/, [ˈs̠ɔs̠pɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsos.pes/, [ˈsɔspes]

Adjective

sospes (genitive sospitis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. saving, delivering
2. safe and sound, unharmed

   Synonyms: saluber, salvus, sanus, integer, intactus, validus, incolumis, sollus, innoxius

   Antonyms: aeger, īnfirmus, languidus

   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 3.14:

     virginum mātrēs iuvenumque nūper / sospitum.

     • 2004 translation by Niall Rudd

       the mothers of the young women and men recently saved from death.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	sospes			sospitēs	sospita
genitive	sospitis			sospitum
dative	sospitī			sospitibus
accusative	sospitem	sospes		sospitēs	sospita
ablative	sospite			sospitibus
vocative	sospes			sospitēs	sospita

Derived terms

• sospitās
• Sospita
• sospitō (“I save”, verb)

References

• “sospes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sospes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sospes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sospes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.