“expect” in Latin

exspectare ( (1) (1) to wait for; aliquid and aliquem, Hor., Sat., 2, 1, 58; and (2) to expect the happening of something with some feeling of hope, fear, desire, prophetie foreboding, etc.; rem; epistolas longiores; majorem Galliae motum, etc.; also, aliquid ab [seldom ex] aliquo = to look to him for it): opperiri (to wait for the arrival of anybody or anything; or the happening of anything; with the intention of then doing something; classem, Nep.; sua tempora, Liv.): praestolari alicui (to stand ready to receive anybody; to be present on the arrival of anybody; especially of a servant who is waiting for his master): manere aliquem or dum aliquis adveniat (to remain till a person comes; not to go away) :sperare (also followed by fore ut): spem habere ad aliquid or alicujus rei (followed by an accusative and infinitive): to be earnestly expecting anything, aliquid avidissime exspectare; magna cum spe exspectare (Cic.): earnestly expected by all, carus omnibus exspectatusque (venies): to expect anybody’s arrival with eagerness, alicujus adventum non mediocriter captare (Cic.): to expect a result or issue, exitum or eventum alicujus rei exspectare; alicujus rei eventum experiri: to expect an opportunity, occasionem captare; occasioni imminere; not first to expect an opportunity, non occasionis tarditatem exspectare (Cic., Phil. 2, 46, 118): you perhaps expect him to say, etc., exspectas fortasse dum dicat (☞ not eum dicturum esse, Cic., Tusc., 2, 7, 17). I confidently expect that etc., magnam spem habeo (followed by an accusative and infinitive): to expect safety, deliverance, etc., from anybody, in aliquo spem salutis ponere: more is expected from justice than from arms, in aequitate plus quam in armis ponitur spei: what I do not expect, id quod non spero: as one might expect from a man who knows what a definition means, ut ab homine perito definiendi. “More, less, etc., than one would expect.” is expressed in Liv., and Tac. (☞ not in Cic., and Caes.) by quam pro re; as, the slaughter was not so great as one might have expected from so great a victory, minor clades quam pro tanta victoria fuit (☞ Zumpt, § 484, extr.).